State size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 1.2 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 81.56% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (5.2 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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