Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 10 times smaller than Peru.
Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 9.82% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (22.7 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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