Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is about 1.5 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 46% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (22.5 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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