Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 10.35% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (48.0 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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