Country size comparison
compared to
North Korea is about 2.2 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, making North Korea 45.32% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (25.3 million more people live in North Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
North Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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