Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 3.7 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 267% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (123.9 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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