South Dakota is 1.12× the size of Uruguay

What fits

• Uruguay is 89% of the size of South Dakota.
• South Dakota is larger by 22,000 km² (8,480 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Uruguay.
• Measured in Belgiums: South Dakota is about 6.50, Uruguay about 5.78.

How they differ

• South Dakota is larger, but Uruguay has the larger population: 3.4 million against 887,000, 3.88× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 19 in Uruguay against 4.4 in South Dakota: Uruguay is 4.37× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,680 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: South Dakota at 44°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Uruguay at 33°S about 1.4×, so the map shows South Dakota as 1.56× the size of Uruguay instead of 1.12×.
• Together South Dakota and Uruguay cover 377,000 km², close to the size of Japan (374,000 km², 0.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 22,000 km², is about the size of Djibouti (21,800 km²).
• At Uruguay's density, South Dakota would have 3.9 million people (it has 887,000). At South Dakota's density, Uruguay would have 789,000 (it has 3.4 million).
• South Dakota's centre is 77.2° of latitude, about 8,590 km, farther north than Uruguay's.
• 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.
• Uruguay ranks 91st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• South Dakota lies about 77° of latitude (roughly 8,590 km) north of Uruguay, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in South Dakota would have about 224,780 m² and each person in Uruguay about 51,490 m².
• Laid side by side, South Dakota and Uruguay would cover 377,000 km², about the same size as Japan.
• Together they have 4.3 million people, about as many people as Kuwait.
• Counted as a country, South Dakota would rank 86th by area and 164th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2023. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 200,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 199,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 176,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 177,000 km², to within 2%.

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