State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 2.3 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 43.71% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (1.4 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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