State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.6 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 63.77% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (14.8 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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