Country size comparison
compared to
Hong Kong is about 70 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 1.42% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (2.7 million more people live in Hong Kong).
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