State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 2.7 times smaller than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 36.8% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (1.8 million more people live in South Carolina).
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