State size comparison

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New York is about 1.6 times smaller than South Dakota.

South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 62.22% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (18.6 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Dakota vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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