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North Korea vs South Korea
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Tallest Building

metres
South Korea
555 m Lotte World Tower
North Korea
330 m Ryugyong Hotel
's tallest is 1.7× the height of 's

Skyscrapers 150m+

count
South Korea 240 towers
150 m
North Korea 12 towers
150 m
has 20× the skyscrapers of

City vs Countryside

% urban
South Korea 81.2% urban
81% in cities 19% rural
North Korea 64.2% urban
64% in cities 36% rural
is 17 pts more urban than

Biggest City

metro population
South Korea
Seoul 25.5M people
North Korea
Pyongyang 3M people
1 dot ≈ 200K people
Seoul is 8.5× the size of Pyongyang
The verdict
tallest building South Korea
skyscrapers South Korea
city living South Korea
biggest city South Korea
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North Korea vs South Korea — Skylines & Cities

One of these has 20× the skyscrapers of the other. Every figure here comes from the same public datasets behind the full comparison — World Bank, IMF, UN and national statistics offices.

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