Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 2.2 times smaller than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 44.87% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (20.9 million more people live in North Korea).
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