Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.5 times smaller than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 65.22% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (60.3 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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