Country size comparison
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North Korea is about 2.4 times smaller than Arizona.
Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 40.96% the size of Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (19.6 million more people live in North Korea).
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