Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 1.6 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 64.31% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~25.6 million people (950,609 more people live in North Korea).
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