State size comparison

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South Dakota is about 1.5 times smaller than Arizona.

Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 66.78% the size of Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Arizona vs. South Dakota uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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