Country size comparison
compared to
Hong Kong is about 114 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.88% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
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