Country size comparison
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Brunei is about 22 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Brunei is approximately 5,765 sq km, making Brunei 4.57% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in Brunei).
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