North Korea is about 1.2 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 83.3% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (22.9 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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