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 ~21.6 million people (4.4 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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