State size comparison

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Pennsylvania is around the same size as North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 92.01% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (3.2 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Pennsylvania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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