Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 14 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 1,286% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (6.4 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Puerto Rico
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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