State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.5 times bigger than Arkansas.
Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 46% larger than Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Arkansas
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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