State size comparison
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Texas is about 5 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 437% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (15.6 million more people live in Texas).
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