North Korea is around the same size as Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 99.22% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (23.0 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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