State size comparison
compared to
Pennsylvania is about 1.7 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 59.06% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (11.9 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Pennsylvania
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