Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1.8 times bigger than Kansas.

Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 78% larger than Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~3.0 million people (120.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kansas vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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