Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is about 1.9 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 53.58% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (24.1 million fewer people live in Latvia).
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