Country size comparison
compared to
Ireland is about 1.8 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 55.7% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Ireland).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Ireland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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