Country size comparison
compared to
Ecuador is about 1.4 times bigger than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, making Ecuador 44% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (16.5 million more people live in Ecuador).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Ecuador
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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