Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 1.2 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 21% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (25.9 million fewer people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
South Korea
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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