Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.4 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 235% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (11.3 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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