Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 49 times bigger than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 4,783% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
China
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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