Country size comparison
compared to
Italy is about 1.5 times bigger than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 53% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (60.3 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Italy
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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