State size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 53 times bigger than Rhode Island.
Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 5,220% larger than Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (11.8 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Rhode Island
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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