Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 76 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 1.31% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in North Carolina).
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