Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 1.5 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 65.12% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (68.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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