Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 11.69% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (21.8 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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