Country size comparison
compared to
South Dakota is about 1.2 times smaller than United Kingdom.
United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 80.68% the size of United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (67.0 million fewer people live in South Dakota).
This to-scale comparison of
United Kingdom
vs.
South Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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