Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 3 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 32.93% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (7.9 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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