Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is around the same size as Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 99.22% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (23.0 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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