Country size comparison
compared to
Malaysia is around the same size as Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 87.28% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (90.3 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Malaysia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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