Country size comparison

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Bangladesh is about 1.2 times bigger than North Korea.

North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Bangladesh is approximately 148,460 sq km, making Bangladesh 23% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (139.7 million more people live in Bangladesh).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of North Korea vs. Bangladesh uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Bangladesh to North Korea · UN DESA 2020
153 people born in Bangladesh live in North Korea.
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