Country size comparison
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North Korea is about 9 times smaller than Colombia.
Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 10.58% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (23.1 million fewer people live in North Korea).
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