Country size comparison

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Vietnam is around the same size as Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 87.64% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~123.4 million people (21.8 million fewer people live in Vietnam).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Vietnam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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