Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 2.1 times bigger than North Dakota.
North Dakota is approximately 178,647 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 112% larger than North Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of North Dakota is ~799,358 people (122.6 million more people live in Japan).
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