Country size comparison
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Algeria is about 20 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 1,876% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (18.2 million more people live in Algeria).
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