State size comparison
compared to
Wyoming is about 1.8 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Wyoming is approximately 251,489 sq km, making Wyoming 75% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (12.3 million fewer people live in Wyoming).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Wyoming
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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