North Korea is about 80 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 1.26% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of China vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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