Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 3.6 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 264% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (14.5 million more people live in Iraq).
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