Country size comparison

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Japan is about 31 times bigger than Vanuatu.

Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 3,000% larger than Vanuatu. Meanwhile, the population of Vanuatu is ~308,043 people (123.9 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Vanuatu vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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