Country size comparison

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India is about 9 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 770% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (1.3 billion more people live in India).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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