North Korea is about 4.2 times smaller than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 23.85% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (21.2 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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