State size comparison

compared to

Maryland is about 8 times smaller than South Dakota.

South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 12.88% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (5.0 million more people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Dakota vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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