Country size comparison
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Latvia is about 1.2 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 82.82% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Latvia).
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