Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 18.48% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (12.4 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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