State size comparison

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North Carolina is about 33 times bigger than Sydney.

Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 3,212% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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