Country size comparison

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New York is about 3.1 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 32.36% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (104.8 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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