Country size comparison
compared to
Tennessee is around the same size as North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, making Tennessee 88.56% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (19.6 million fewer people live in Tennessee).
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