Country size comparison

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Thailand is about 4.3 times bigger than North Korea.

North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Thailand is approximately 513,120 sq km, making Thailand 326% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (43.7 million more people live in Thailand).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of North Korea vs. Thailand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Thailand to North Korea · UN DESA 2020
574 people born in Thailand live in North Korea.
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