Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 6 times smaller than Turkey.
Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 16.1% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (73.5 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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