Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 4.1 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 24.2% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (2.3 million more people live in Belgium).
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