Country size comparison
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North Korea is about 404 times bigger than Maldives.
Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 40,349% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~529,676 people (26.0 million more people live in North Korea).
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