Country size comparison
compared to
France is about 1.5 times bigger than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 46% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (55.9 million fewer people live in France).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
France
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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