Country size comparison
compared to
Qatar is about 10 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 9.61% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (23.4 million fewer people live in Qatar).
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