Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 1.4 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 42% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (46.6 million more people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
South Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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