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).
This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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