Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 39 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 2.54% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (25.3 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Australia
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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