Country size comparison

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Malaysia is around the same size as Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 87.28% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (90.3 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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