Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 1.5 times smaller than Nepal.
Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 67.75% the size of Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (21.2 million more people live in South Korea).
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