Country size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.3 times smaller than Iceland.
Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 75.71% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (4.3 million more people live in South Carolina).
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