State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 3.2 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 31.24% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (27.7 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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