North Carolina is about 22 times smaller than Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan is approximately 2,724,900 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 4.63% the size of Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the population of Kazakhstan is ~19.4 million people (9.9 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kazakhstan vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.