Country size comparison

 North Korea
compared to
 Iowa, USA

North Korea is about 1.2 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 83.3% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (22.9 million more people live in North Korea). We have positioned the outline of Iowa near the middle of North Korea.
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This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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