Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 1.5 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 67.31% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (12.0 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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