Guyana is 1.06× the size of South Dakota

What fits

• South Dakota is 94% of the size of Guyana.
• Guyana is larger by 11,900 km² (4,600 mi²), which is 6.0% of the area of South Dakota.
• Measured in Belgiums: Guyana is about 6.89, South Dakota about 6.50.

How they differ

• Guyana is larger, but South Dakota has the larger population: 887,000 against 879,000, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 4.4 in South Dakota against 4.2 in Guyana: South Dakota is 1.07× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 5,960 km apart.
• On a standard web map South Dakota looks larger than Guyana: Guyana at 5°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and South Dakota at 44°N about 2.0×, so the map shows South Dakota as 1.84× the size of Guyana, when Guyana is 1.06× the size of South Dakota.
• Together Guyana and South Dakota cover 411,000 km², close to the size of Paraguay (400,000 km², 2.6% smaller).
• The gap between them, 11,900 km², is about the size of Falkland Islands (11,600 km²).
• At South Dakota's density, Guyana would have 940,000 people (it has 879,000). At Guyana's density, South Dakota would have 829,000 (it has 887,000).
• South Dakota's centre is 39.7° of latitude, about 4,410 km, farther north than Guyana's.
• Guyana ranks 85th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• South Dakota is the 17th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 2.1% of its area; it is the 47th most densely populated of them.
• South Dakota lies about 40° of latitude (roughly 4,410 km) north of Guyana.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Guyana would have about 240,380 m² and each person in South Dakota about 224,780 m².
• Laid side by side, Guyana and South Dakota would cover 411,000 km², about the same size as Paraguay.
• Together they have 1.8 million people, 96% as many people as North Macedonia.
• Counted as a country, South Dakota would rank 86th by area and 164th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 215,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 211,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 200,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 199,000 km², to within 2%.

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