Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 13 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 7.65% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (77.2 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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