Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 3 times smaller than Colombia.

Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 33.18% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (75.2 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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