Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 3.7 times smaller than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 26.77% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (15.5 million more people live in North Korea).
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Moving from North Korea to Sweden · OECD 2023
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