North Korea is about 4 times smaller than Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 24.7% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (20.3 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Turkmenistan vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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