Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 3.3 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 30.47% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (103.5 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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