Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 1.5 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 68.4% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (22.5 million more people live in North Korea).
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