North Korea is about 2.3 times smaller than Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is approximately 274,200 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 43.96% the size of Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the population of Burkina Faso is ~21.9 million people (4.0 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Burkina Faso vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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