Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 10 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 911% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (31.6 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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