State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 10 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 10.33% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (5.7 million more people live in Massachusetts).
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