Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 3 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 200% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (114.7 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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