Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is about 1.4 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km,
while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making
Uruguay 40% larger than North Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people
(6.1 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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