Country size comparison
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Latvia is about 1.9 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 51.2% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in Latvia).
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