State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.3 times smaller than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 78.46% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Michigan
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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