State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 1.7 times smaller than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 59.54% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~3.0 million people (8.2 million more people live in North Carolina).
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