Country size comparison
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Guatemala is about 1.2 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, making Guatemala 86.31% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (8.2 million more people live in Guatemala).
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