State size comparison
compared to
Tennessee is about 1.8 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, making Tennessee 54.32% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (5.5 million more people live in Tennessee).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Tennessee
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