State size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Texas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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