Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 1.2 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km,
while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making
South Korea 82.73% the size of North Korea.
Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people
(25.9 million more people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
South Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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