Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 1.2 times bigger than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 25% larger than Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (63.1 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Italy
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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