Country size comparison

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North Korea is about 142 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 0.7% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (116.1 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. North Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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