Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 3.4 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making
North Korea 29.84% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(11.3 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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