State size comparison
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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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