Country size comparison

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New Caledonia is about 7 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 14.72% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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