State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is around the same size as Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 99.49% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (9.8 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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