State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 1.7 times smaller than Utah.
Utah is approximately 212,751 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 59.3% the size of Utah. Meanwhile, the population of Utah is ~2.8 million people (6.8 million more people live in North Carolina).
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