Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 14 times smaller than Libya.
Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 7.17% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (2.4 million more people live in North Carolina).
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