State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 1.7 times smaller than Idaho.
Idaho is approximately 214,314 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 58.87% the size of Idaho. Meanwhile, the population of Idaho is ~1.6 million people (8.0 million more people live in North Carolina).
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