Timor-Leste is about 8 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 11.79% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (8.1 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Timor-Leste uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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