State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is around the same size as Minnesota.
Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 95.32% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Minnesota
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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