Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 1.2 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 81.55% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (32.5 million more people live in South Korea).
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