North Carolina is about 9 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 11.42% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (104.1 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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