Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 1.4 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 41% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (119.2 million more people live in Japan).
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