Country size comparison
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South Carolina is about 16 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 6.29% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (16.1 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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