Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 20 times smaller than Algeria.
Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 5.06% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (18.2 million fewer people live in North Korea).
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