Country size comparison
compared to
Portugal is about 1.3 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 76.4% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (15.7 million fewer people live in Portugal).
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