Country size comparison

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Japan is about 3.1 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 209% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (104.8 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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