Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 1.6 times bigger than United Kingdom.
United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 55% larger than United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (56.4 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
United Kingdom
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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