North Carolina is about 2.1 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 47.43% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (8.9 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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