Country size comparison

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Japan is about 2.9 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 34.22% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (12.1 million fewer people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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