State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.2 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 80.69% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (6.8 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Missouri
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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