Country size comparison

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Austria is around the same size as South Carolina.

South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, making Austria 8% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (4.3 million more people live in Austria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Carolina vs. Austria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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