Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1.5 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 68.52% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (55.9 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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