Country size comparison
compared to
Russia is about 87 times bigger than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 8,600% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (141.2 million more people live in Russia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Russia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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