Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 133 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.75% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~123.4 million people (123.1 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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