Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 2.6 times smaller than Spain.
Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 38.89% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (46.3 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
Spain
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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