Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 49 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 2.05% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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