Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.4 times smaller than Ecuador.
Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 69.31% the size of Ecuador. Meanwhile, the population of Ecuador is ~17.3 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Ecuador
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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