State size comparison
compared to
Wisconsin is about 1.4 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Wisconsin is approximately 140,663 sq km, making Wisconsin 71.57% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (4.9 million more people live in Wisconsin).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Wisconsin
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