State size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
New York
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