Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 31 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 3.23% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (123.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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