State size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 1.9 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 52.35% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (3.5 million more people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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