Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 20 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 4.88% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (98.1 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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