Country size comparison

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Libya is about 15 times bigger than North Korea.

North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 1,360% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (18.8 million fewer people live in Libya).
This to-scale comparison of North Korea vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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