State size comparison

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Missouri is about 1.4 times bigger than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, making Missouri 41% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Missouri).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Missouri uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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