State size comparison

compared to

Florida is about 1.4 times smaller than South Dakota.

South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Florida is approximately 139,670 sq km, making Florida 71.06% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (18.0 million more people live in Florida).
This to-scale comparison of South Dakota vs. Florida uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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