Country size comparison
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Japan is about 4.8 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 385% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (119.6 million more people live in Japan).
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