Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 2 times smaller than Laos.
Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 50.9% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (18.2 million more people live in North Korea).
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