Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 5 times smaller than Yemen.
Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 18.89% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (20.9 million more people live in South Korea).
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