Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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