Country size comparison

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Japan is about 3.7 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 269% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (116.2 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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