North Korea covers 120,538 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 0.1% of all land on Earth. It ranks 100th of 237 countries worldwide and 29th in Asia. At 40° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.7×, drawing it closer to 206,253 km², a difference of roughly 71%.
For scale, North Korea is roughly the same size as Greece (131,957 km²).
North Korea: key figures
| True area | 120,538 km² |
| World rank | 100th |
| Share of world land | 0.1% |
| Rank in Asia | 29th / 52 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.7× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 206,253 km² |
Largest countries in Asia (true area)
| Asia | |
|---|
| China | 9,596,960 km² |
| India | 3,287,263 km² |
| Kazakhstan | 2,724,910 km² |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 km² |
| Iran | 1,648,195 km² |