Country size comparison
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Yemen is about 4.2 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 318% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (21.4 million more people live in Yemen).
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