Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 3.1 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 214% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (98.3 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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