State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.5 times smaller than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 67.18% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (8.1 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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