State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is around the same size as Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 87.19% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (6.5 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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