State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.9 times bigger than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 91% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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