North Korea is about 15 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 6.85% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (18.8 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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