Country size comparison

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South Dakota is about 51 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 1.97% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (37.4 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. South Dakota uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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