State size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 1.4 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 70.71% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (3.5 million more people live in North Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
Missouri
vs.
North Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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