Country size comparison
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Timor-Leste is about 8 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 12.34% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (24.5 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
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