North Korea is about 2.2 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 45.32% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (25.3 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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