Country size comparison
compared to
Malta is about 381 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.26% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (25.5 million fewer people live in Malta).
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