Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 404 times smaller than North Korea.

North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.25% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (25.6 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of North Korea vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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