State size comparison
compared to
Arkansas is about 1.5 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 68.62% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (2.1 million more people live in Arkansas).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Arkansas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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