Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 1.3 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 79.04% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~11.2 million people (40.5 million more people live in South Korea).
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