State size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 19 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 1,800% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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