State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 16 times bigger than Connecticut.
Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 1,466% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Connecticut
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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