State size comparison

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Kansas is about 1.5 times bigger than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, making Kansas 47% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.0 million fewer people live in Kansas).
This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Kansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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