Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 423 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.24% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.1 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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