State size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 12 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 1,074% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (8.8 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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