Country size comparison

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Japan is about 4.7 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 21.48% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (117.1 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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