Country size comparison
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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).
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