Country size comparison
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Egypt is about 8 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 731% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (81.8 million more people live in Egypt).
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