Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 5 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 19.79% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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