State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.4 times smaller than Nevada.
Nevada is approximately 284,448 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 69.1% the size of Nevada. Meanwhile, the population of Nevada is ~2.7 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
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