State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.6 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 61.81% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
South Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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