Country size comparison

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Germany is about 1.8 times bigger than South Dakota.

South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 82% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (83.5 million more people live in Germany).
This to-scale comparison of South Dakota vs. Germany uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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