Country size comparison

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North Korea is around the same size as North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 95.54% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (16.4 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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