Country size comparison

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Brazil is about 23 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Brazil is approximately 8,515,770 sq km, making Brazil 2,153% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (93.0 million more people live in Brazil).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Brazil uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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