Japan is about 1.7 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 59.27% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (111.8 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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