Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1.2 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 83.93% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (113.7 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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