State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.3 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 76.05% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (3.4 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
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