Country size comparison

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Australia is about 39 times bigger than South Dakota.

South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 3,839% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (25.3 million more people live in Australia).
This to-scale comparison of South Dakota vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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