Country size comparison

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Russia is about 45 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 4,424% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (17.8 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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