Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 1.9 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 52.41% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (456,577 fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Iceland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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