Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 50 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 2.0% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (336.5 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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