Country size comparison
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Japan is about 3.3 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 226% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (111.5 million more people live in Japan).
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