Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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