Country size comparison
compared to
Guatemala is around the same size as North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, making Guatemala 90.34% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (8.3 million fewer people live in Guatemala).
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