Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 6 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 17.09% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (122.4 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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