Country size comparison
compared to
Virgin Islands is about 66 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 1.51% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.4 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
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