Country size comparison

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Japan is about 3.4 times bigger than Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 241% larger than Bulgaria. Meanwhile, the population of Bulgaria is ~6.9 million people (117.3 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Bulgaria vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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