Country size comparison

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Japan is around the same size as Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 96.71% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~17.0 million people (106.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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