Country size comparison
compared to
India is about 17 times bigger than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 1,573% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (1.4 billion more people live in India).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
India
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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