South Korea is about 1.7 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 57.86% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (45.1 million more people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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