Country size comparison

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Cook Islands is about 1,601 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.06% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (124.2 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Cook Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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