Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 125 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.8% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (25.7 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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