Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 109 times smaller than North Korea.

North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.92% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (18.7 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of North Korea vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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