Country size comparison
compared to
Ireland is about 1.7 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 58.3% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (20.7 million fewer people live in Ireland).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Ireland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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