Country size comparison
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North Carolina is about 10 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 10.17% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (11.2 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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