Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 1.2 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 81.64% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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