Country size comparison

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Japan is about 6 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 15.87% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (80.0 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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