State size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 6 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 17.58% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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