Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1.3 times smaller than Cameroon.

Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 79.49% the size of Cameroon. Meanwhile, the population of Cameroon is ~29.3 million people (94.9 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cameroon vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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