Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 3.1 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km,
while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making
North Korea 31.9% the size of Japan.
Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people
(98.3 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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