Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 168 times bigger than Singapore.
Singapore is approximately 719 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 16,660% larger than Singapore. Meanwhile, the population of Singapore is ~5.9 million people (20.0 million more people live in North Korea).
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