State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.9 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 53.89% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.6 million more people live in South Carolina).
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