North Carolina is about 14 times bigger than Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 1,286% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (6.4 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of Puerto Rico vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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