Country size comparison
compared to
Italy is about 2.4 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 139% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (51.6 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Italy
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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