Country size comparison

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Japan is about 2.1 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 48.23% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (41.2 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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