Country size comparison
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Peru is about 10 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 919% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (22.7 million more people live in Peru).
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