State size comparison
compared to
Vermont is about 6 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Vermont is approximately 23,956 sq km, making Vermont 16.64% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.2 million fewer people live in Vermont).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Vermont
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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