Country size comparison

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Japan is about 26 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 3.78% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (86.0 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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