Japan is around the same size as Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 15% larger than Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (90.3 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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