State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is around the same size as Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 92.75% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Kansas
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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