State size comparison
compared to
Minnesota is around the same size as South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 5% larger than South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (4.5 million more people live in Minnesota).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Minnesota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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