Country size comparison
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Maldives is about 262 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.38% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (4.2 million fewer people live in Maldives).
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