Country size comparison

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France is about 4.4 times bigger than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 337% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (58.8 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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