State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 2 times smaller than Nevada.
Nevada is approximately 284,448 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 50.61% the size of Nevada. Meanwhile, the population of Nevada is ~2.7 million people (10.1 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Nevada
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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