Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 5 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 18.9% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (13.6 million more people live in North Korea).
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