Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1.5 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 64.96% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.6 million people (120.8 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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