State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 2.1 times smaller than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 46.97% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (4.5 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Colorado
vs.
North Carolina
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