Victoria is 1.14× the size of South Dakota

What fits

• South Dakota is 87% of the size of Victoria.
• Victoria is larger by 28,600 km² (11,100 mi²), which is 14% of the area of South Dakota.
• Measured in Belgiums: Victoria is about 7.43, South Dakota about 6.50.

How they differ

• Victoria also has the larger population: 7.0 million against 887,000, 7.91× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 31 in Victoria against 4.4 in South Dakota: Victoria is 6.91× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 14,600 km apart.
• On a standard web map South Dakota looks larger than Victoria: Victoria at 37°S is drawn about 1.6× too large and South Dakota at 44°N about 2.0×, so the map shows South Dakota as 1.10× the size of Victoria, when Victoria is 1.14× the size of South Dakota.
• Together Victoria and South Dakota cover 427,000 km², close to the size of Iraq (437,000 km², 2.4% bigger).
• The gap between them, 28,600 km², is about the size of Albania (28,300 km²).
• At South Dakota's density, Victoria would have 1.0 million people (it has 7.0 million). At Victoria's density, South Dakota would have 6.1 million (it has 887,000).
• South Dakota's centre is 81.3° of latitude, about 9,040 km, farther north than Victoria's.
• Victoria is the 6th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 3.0% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• 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 81° of latitude (roughly 9,040 km) north of Victoria, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Victoria would have about 32,510 m² and each person in South Dakota about 224,780 m².
• Laid side by side, Victoria and South Dakota would cover 427,000 km², about the same size as Iraq.
• Together they have 7.9 million people, about as many people as Togo.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 227,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 228,000 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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