Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwest of the United States of America. Home to the large city of Chicago, the terrain of this state ranges from rolling farmland in the south to the mud flats upon which Chicago was built.
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Illinois
- State with 12,700,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 627 feet (191 metres)
- …is abbreviated as “IL”
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Also known as“IL”“Ill.”“Illinois, United States”“Ills.”“Land of Lincoln”“Lincoln State”“Prairie State”“State of Illinois”“The Land of Lincoln”“The Prairie State”“US-IL”
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Latitude of center
40.0797° or 40° 4′ 47″ north
Longitude of center
-89.4337° or 89° 26′ 1″ west
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Illinois” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “IL”
- Achinese: “Illinois”
- Afrikaans: “Illinois”
- Albanian: “Illinois”
- Amharic: “ኢሊኖይ”
- Arabic: “إلنوي”
- Arabic: “إلينوي”
- Arabic: “إلينويز”
- Aragonese: “IL”
- Aragonese: “Illinois”
- Armenian: “Իլինոյս”
- Arpitan: “IL”
- Arpitan: “Ilinouès”
- Arpitan: “Illinois”
- Asturian: “IL”
- Asturian: “Illinois”
- Aymara: “IL”
- Aymara: “Illinois suyu”
- Azerbaijani: “IL”
- Azerbaijani: “İllinoys”
- Balinese: “IL”
- Balinese: “Illinois”
- Bashkir: “IL”
- Bashkir: “Иллинойс”
- Basque: “IL”
- Basque: “Illinois”
- Batak Mandailing: “IL”
- Batak Mandailing: “Illinois”
- Bavarian: “IL”
- Bavarian: “Illinois”
- Belarusian: “Іліной”
- Belarusian: “Ілінойс”
- Bengali: “IL”
- Bengali: “ইলিনয়”
- Betawi: “IL”
- Betawi: “Ilinoi”
- Bhojpuri: “IL”
- Bhojpuri: “इलिनोइ”
- Bishnupriya: “IL”
- Bishnupriya: “ইলিনয়স”
- Bislama: “IL”
- Bislama: “Illinois”
- Bosnian: “IL”
- Bosnian: “Illinois”
- Breton: “IL”
- Breton: “Illinois”
- Bulgarian: “IL”
- Bulgarian: “Илинойс”
- Burmese: “အီလီနွိုင်းပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “IL”
- Catalan: “Illinois”
- Cebuano: “IL”
- Cebuano: “Illinois”
- Central Bikol: “IL”
- Central Bikol: “Illinois”
- Central Kurdish: “IL”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیلینۆی”
- Chavacano: “IL”
- Chavacano: “Illinois”
- Chechen: “IL”
- Chechen: “Иллинойс”
- Cherokee: “Illinois”
- Cherokee: “ᎢᎵᏃᏱ”
- Chinese: “伊利諾伊州”
- Chinese: “伊利諾州”
- Chinese: “伊利诺伊州”
- Chinese: “伊利诺州”
- Choctaw: “Ilinoy”
- Chuvash: “IL”
- Chuvash: “Иллинойс”
- Cornish: “Illinois”
- Corsican: “Illinois”
- Crimean Tatar: “IL”
- Crimean Tatar: “İllinois”
- Crimean Tatar: “İllinoys”
- Croatian: “Illinois”
- Czech: “IL”
- Czech: “Illinois”
- Czech: “State of Illinois”
- Dagbani: “IL”
- Dagbani: “Illinois”
- Danish: “IL”
- Danish: “Illinois”
- Dimli (individual language): “IL”
- Dimli (individual language): “Illinois”
- Dimli (individual language): “İllinois”
- Dutch: “IL”
- Dutch: “Illinois”
- Eastern Mari: “Иллинойс”
- Egyptian Arabic: “IL”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايلينوى”
- Emilian: “IL”
- Emilian: “Illinòis”
- Esperanto: “IL”
- Esperanto: “Ilinojso”
- Estonian: “IL”
- Estonian: “Illinois”
- Ewe: “Illinois”
- Faroese: “IL”
- Faroese: “Illinois”
- Fiji Hindi: “Illinois”
- Finnish: “IL”
- Finnish: “Illinois”
- French: “État d’Illinois”
- French: “État de l’Illinois”
- French: “IL”
- French: “Illinois”
- French: “US-IL”
- Friulian: “IL”
- Friulian: “Illinois”
- Gagauz: “IL”
- Gagauz: “İllinois”
- Galician: “IL”
- Galician: “Illinois”
- Georgian: “ილინოისი”
- German: “IL”
- German: “Illinois”
- Gothic: “IL”
- Gothic: “Illinois”
- Gothic: “𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌿𐌾”
- Greek: “Ιλινόι”
- Guarani: “IL”
- Guarani: “Illinois”
- Gujarati: “IL”
- Gujarati: “ઇલિનોઇસ”
- Haitian: “Ilinwa”
- Hakka Chinese: “IL”
- Hakka Chinese: “Illinois”
- Hausa: “IL”
- Hausa: “Illinois”
- Hawaiian: “‘Ilinoe”
- Hawaiian: “ʻIlinoe”
- Hawaiian: “IL”
- Hebrew: “IL”
- Hebrew: “אילינוי”
- Hindi: “IL”
- Hindi: “इलिनॉय”
- Hindi: “इलिनोय”
- Hungarian: “Illinois”
- Icelandic: “Illinois”
- Ido: “Illinois”
- Igbo: “Ilinoi”
- Iloko: “Illinois”
- Inari Sami: “Illinois”
- Indonesian: “Illinois”
- Interlingua: “Illinois”
- Interlingue: “Illinois”
- Inuktitut: “ᐄᓚᓄᐃᔅ”
- Inupiaq: “Ilinui”
- Inupiaq: “Illinois”
- Irish: “IL”
- Irish: “Illinois”
- Italian: “Illinois”
- Japanese: “イリノイ”
- Japanese: “イリノイズ”
- Japanese: “イリノイズ州”
- Japanese: “イリノイ州”
- Javanese: “Illinois”
- Kabiyè: “Ilnuwaa”
- Kabyle: “Illinois”
- Kalmyk: “Илиной”
- Kannada: “ಇಲಿನಾಯ್ಸ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Иллинойс”
- Kashmiri: “اِلِنوے”
- Kazakh: “Иллинойс”
- Kirghiz: “Иллинойс”
- Komering: “Illinois”
- Korean: “일리노이”
- Korean: “일리노이주”
- Kurdish: “Illinois”
- Ladin: “Illinois”
- Ladino: “Illinois”
- Lao: “ລັດອິລີນອຍ”
- Latin: “Illinoesia”
- Latvian: “Ilinoisa”
- Ligurian: “Illinois”
- Limburgan: “Illinois”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Illinois”
- Literary Chinese: “伊利諾州”
- Lithuanian: “Ilinojus”
- Lombard: “Illinois”
- Low German: “Illinois”
- Luxembourgish: “Illinois”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Illinois”
- Macedonian: “Илиноис”
- Maithili: “इलिनोइ”
- Malagasy: “Illinois”
- Malay: “Illinois”
- Malayalam: “ഇല്ലിനോയി”
- Manipuri: “ꯏꯜꯂꯤꯅꯣꯢꯁ”
- Manx: “IL”
- Manx: “Illinois”
- Maori: “Illinois”
- Maori: “Irinoi”
- Marathi: “इलिनॉय”
- Mazanderani: “ایلینوی”
- Mazanderani: “ایلینویز”
- Min Dong Chinese: “IL”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Illinois”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Illinois”
- Minangkabau: “Illinois”
- Mingrelian: “ილინოისი”
- Mongolian: “Иллиной”
- Moroccan Arabic: “IL”
- Moroccan Arabic: “إيلينوي”
- Nauru: “Illinois”
- Navajo: “Tóntsxaadę́ę́ʼ Nílį́ Hahoodzo”
- Nepali: “इलिनाय”
- Nepali: “इलिनोई”
- Newari: “इलिनोइ”
- Northern Frisian: “IL”
- Northern Frisian: “Illinois”
- Northern Luri: “ایلینویز”
- Northern Sami: “Illinois”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “IL”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ill.”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Illinois”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Illinois”
- Norwegian: “Illinois”
- Novial: “Illinois”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illinois”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “IL”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܝܢܘܝ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēoleland”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “IL”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Illinois”
- Oromo: “Illinois”
- Ossetian: “Иллинойс”
- Pali: “इलिनोइ”
- Pampanga: “Illinois”
- Pangasinan: “Illinois”
- Panjabi: “ਇਲੀਨਾਏ”
- Papiamento: “Illinois”
- Pennsylvania German: “Illinois”
- Persian: “IL”
- Persian: “ایلینوی”
- Persian: “ایلینوی”
- Picard: “Illinois”
- Piemontese: “Illinois”
- Polish: “Illinois”
- Portuguese: “Ilinóis”
- Portuguese: “Illinois”
- Pushto: “ايلينوی”
- Quechua: “Illinois suyu”
- Romanian: “Illinois”
- Romansh: “Illinois”
- Russia Buriat: “IL”
- Russia Buriat: “Иллинойс”
- Russian: “Иллинойс”
- Rusyn: “Ілінойс”
- Samogitian: “Ėlėnuojos”
- Samogitian: “Ilinuojos”
- Sanskrit: “इलिनाई”
- Sanskrit: “इलिनाय्स्”
- Sanskrit: “इलेनॉइस्”
- Sardinian: “Illinois”
- Saterfriesisch: “Illinois”
- Scots: “Illinois”
- Scottish Gaelic: “IL”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Illinois”
- Serbian: “IL”
- Serbian: “Илиноис, Сједињене Америчке Државе”
- Serbian: “Илиноис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Illinois”
- Sicilian: “Illinois”
- Silesian: “Illinois”
- Sindhi: “الينوائي”
- Sinhala: “ඉලිනොයි”
- Sinhala: “ඉලිනොයිස්”
- Slovak: “Illinois”
- Slovenian: “Illinois”
- Somali: “Illinois”
- South Azerbaijani: “IL”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایلینوی ایالتی”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Estado de Illinois”
- Spanish: “Estado de la pradera”
- Spanish: “IL”
- Spanish: “Illinois (estado)”
- Spanish: “Illinois, Estados Unidos”
- Spanish: “Illinois”
- Spanish: “La tierra de Lincoln”
- Spanish: “Tierra de Lincoln”
- Swahili: “Illinois”
- Swedish: “Illinois”
- Swiss German: “IL”
- Swiss German: “Illinois”
- Tagalog: “Illinois”
- Tajik: “Иллинойс”
- Talysh: “Illinojs”
- Tamil: “இலினொய்”
- Tamil: “இல்லினாய்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Иллинойс”
- Telugu: “ఇల్లినాయి”
- Telugu: “ఇల్లినాయిస్”
- Thai: “รัฐอิลลินอย”
- Thai: “รัฐอิลลินอยส์”
- Tumbuka: “Illinois”
- Turkish: “IL”
- Turkish: “Ill.”
- Turkish: “Illinois eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Illinois, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
- Turkish: “Illinois”
- Turkish: “State of Illinois”
- Turkish: “US-IL”
- Twi: “Illinois”
- Uighur: “Illinoyiz Shitati”
- Uighur: “ئىللىنويىز شىتاتى”
- Ukrainian: “Іллінойс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Illinois”
- Urdu: “الینوائے”
- Urdu: “الینوے”
- Uzbek: “Illinoys”
- Venetian: “Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Illinois”
- Vlaams: “Illinois”
- Vlax Romani: “Illinois”
- Volapük: “Illinois”
- Walloon: “Ilinwès”
- Walloon: “Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Illinois”
- Welsh: “IL”
- Welsh: “Illinois”
- Western Armenian: “Իլինոյս”
- Western Frisian: “IL”
- Western Frisian: “Illinois”
- Western Mari: “Иллинойс”
- Western Panjabi: “الینوئی”
- Western Panjabi: “الینوۓ”
- Wolof: “Illinois”
- Wu Chinese: “伊利诺伊州”
- Xhosa: “I-Ilinoyi”
- Yakut: “Иллинойс”
- Yiddish: “אילינוי”
- Yoruba: “Illinois”
- Yue Chinese: “伊利諾州”
- Zeeuws: “Illinois”
- Zhuang: “Illinois”
- “ma Ilino”
- “ma Ilinowi”
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