State size comparison
compared to
Pennsylvania is about 1.2 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 80.63% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (128,253 fewer people live in Pennsylvania).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Pennsylvania
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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