Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 3.8 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 26.04% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (16.4 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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