Country size comparison
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Japan is about 6 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 17.58% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~37.0 million people (86.4 million more people live in Japan).
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