Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 1.6 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 64.38% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (96.0 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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