Country size comparison
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Kazakhstan is about 23 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Kazakhstan is approximately 2,724,900 sq km, making Kazakhstan 2,161% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Kazakhstan).
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