State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 2.3 times smaller than Arizona.
Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 42.87% the size of Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (3.1 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Arizona
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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