Country size comparison
Japan
compared to
Afghanistan
Japan is about 1.7 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 57.94% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (85.9 million more people live in Japan).
We have positioned the outline of Afghanistan near the middle of Japan.
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This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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