Country size comparison
compared to
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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