Country size comparison
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Japan is about 3.1 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 211% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (121.2 million more people live in Japan).
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