North Korea is about 8 times smaller than Egypt.

Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 12.04% the size of Egypt. Meanwhile, the population of Egypt is ~107.8 million people (81.8 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Egypt vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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