Country size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 3.7 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 27.23% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (119.9 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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