Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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