Country size comparison
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Virgin Islands is about 41 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 2.45% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
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