Country size comparison

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Japan is about 3.7 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 267% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (119.9 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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