Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 3.4 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 29.34% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (117.3 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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