Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 5 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 441% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (12.4 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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