Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 1.2 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 85.45% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (25.6 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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