Country size comparison

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North Carolina is about 61 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 1.63% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (16.6 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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