North Korea is about 3.6 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 27.5% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (14.5 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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