State size comparison
compared to
Hawaii is about 8 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Hawaii is approximately 16,635 sq km, making Hawaii 13.19% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (8.2 million fewer people live in Hawaii).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Hawaii
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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