State size comparison
compared to
Tennessee is about 1.2 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, making Tennessee 84.62% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Tennessee).
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