Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 7 times smaller than Nigeria.
Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 13.66% the size of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (215.5 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Nigeria
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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