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).
This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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