Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 3.4 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 29.43% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (106.3 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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