State size comparison
compared to
Colorado is about 2.1 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, making Colorado 113% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in Colorado).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Colorado
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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