State size comparison
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District of Columbia is about 441 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.23% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~5.6 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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