Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 39 times bigger than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 3,839% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (25.3 million more people live in Australia).
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