Egypt is about 8 times bigger than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 694% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (98.2 million more people live in Egypt).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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