Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 9.89% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (31.6 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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