Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1,196 times bigger than Malta.

Malta is approximately 316 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 119,493% larger than Malta. Meanwhile, the population of Malta is ~464,186 people (123.8 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malta vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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