Country size comparison
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Qatar is about 11 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 9.18% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (7.0 million fewer people live in Qatar).
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