Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 1.7 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 72% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (20.7 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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