Country size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 1.2 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 85.36% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (21.6 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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