State size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 10 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 9.77% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (8.0 million more people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
New Jersey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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