Maldives is about 423 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.24% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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