Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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