Country size comparison

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Japan is about 45 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 2.21% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (17.8 million fewer people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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