Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 2.6 times bigger than Nepal.

Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 157% larger than Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (93.5 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nepal vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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