Japan is about 20 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 4.88% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~23.2 million people (103.2 million more people live in Japan).

This to-scale map shows a size comparison of Australia compared to Japan. For more details, see an in-depth quality of life comparison of Japan vs. Australia using our country comparison tool.

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