Country size comparison

compared to

South Korea is about 3.8 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 26.39% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (72.4 million fewer people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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