Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 2.1 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 46.93% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (4.5 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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