Country size comparison

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Japan is about 6 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 485% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (122.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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