Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 18 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 5.61% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (9.4 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Saudi Arabia
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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