Country size comparison
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Malta is about 399 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.25% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in Malta).
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