Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1,268 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 126,717% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~529,676 people (122.8 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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