Country size comparison
compared to
Portugal is about 1.4 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 72.99% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (706,598 more people live in Portugal).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Portugal
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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