State size comparison

 South Dakota, USA
compared to
 Texas, USA

South Dakota is about 3.5 times smaller than Texas.

Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, making South Dakota 28.99% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (24.3 million fewer people live in South Dakota). We have positioned the outline of Texas near the middle of South Dakota.
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This to-scale comparison of Texas vs. South Dakota uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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