Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.8 times smaller than Germany.
Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 55.05% the size of Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (83.5 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Germany
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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