Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 96 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 1.04% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in South Korea).
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Moving from South Korea to China · UN DESA 2020
144,831 people born in South Korea live in China.
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