Country size comparison
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North Korea is about 9 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 10.92% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (87.7 million fewer people live in North Korea).
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