Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 177 times smaller than South Dakota.

South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.56% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (6.5 million more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Dakota vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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