Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 1.4 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 71.14% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (119.2 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
New Zealand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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