Country size comparison
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North Korea is about 15 times smaller than Sudan.
Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 6.48% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (22.0 million fewer people live in North Korea).
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