Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 2.8 times smaller than France.
France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 35.64% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (67.5 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
France
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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