Country size comparison

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North Korea is about 14 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 7.31% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (60.8 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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