State size comparison
compared to
New York is about 1.2 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 84.94% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (6.5 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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