Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 136 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 0.74% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (132.5 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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