Country size comparison

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Guyana is about 1.8 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Guyana is approximately 214,969 sq km, making Guyana 56.88% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (123.4 million fewer people live in Guyana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Guyana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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