Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 1.8 times smaller than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 56.88% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (23.1 million more people live in North Korea).
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