State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 2 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 49.43% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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