State size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 3.5 times smaller than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 28.99% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (24.3 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
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