North Korea

Facts

What the numbers say about North Korea

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 139× the size of North Korea.
• North Korea ranks 55th of 237 by population but only 100th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 216 people per km², North Korea is the 35th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 40°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so North Korea looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, North Korea's main territory stretches about 595 km north to south and 533 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 121,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 122,000 km², to within 2%.

How North Korea measures up

North Korea holds 0.4% of the land area and 0.6% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Eastern Asia it is the 4th largest of 8.

Where North Korea sits

• North Korea's centre lies at 40.1°N, 127.2°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,460 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 38°N to 43°N, about 590 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If North Korea had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², North Korea would have 153.3 million people. It has 26.4 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², North Korea would have 455,000 people. It has 26.4 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 8.9 million.

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