State size comparison
compared to
New York is about 1.6 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 57% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (14.8 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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