Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 1.6 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 64.31% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (4.4 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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