State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.2 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 220% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (27.7 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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