State size comparison
compared to
Minnesota is about 1.6 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 63% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (4.2 million fewer people live in Minnesota).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Minnesota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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