State size comparison

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New Jersey is about 7 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 15.23% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (743,589 fewer people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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