Country size comparison

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China is about 25 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 2,439% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~123.4 million people (1.3 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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