Mozambique is 2.11× the size of Japan

Mozambique covers about 788,000 km² (304,000 mi²) and Japan about 374,000 km² (144,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

788,000km²Mozambique
374,000km²Japan

500 km

Mozambique
Japan

What fits

Japan fits inside Mozambique about 2.11 times by area.
Mozambique is larger by 415,000 km² (160,000 mi²), which is 111% of the area of Japan.
Measured in Belgiums: Mozambique is about 25.7, Japan about 12.2.

How they differ

Mozambique is larger, but Japan has the larger population: 123.8 million against 29.7 million, 4.17× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 331 in Japan against 38 in Mozambique: Japan is 8.81× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 12,200 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mozambique at 17°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Japan at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Mozambique as 1.46× the size of Japan instead of 2.11×.
Together Mozambique and Japan cover 1,162,000 km², close to the size of Niger (1,181,000 km², 1.7% bigger).
The gap between them, 415,000 km², is about the size of Paraguay (400,000 km²).
At Japan's density, Mozambique would have 261.3 million people (it has 29.7 million). At Mozambique's density, Japan would have 14.1 million (it has 123.8 million).
Japan's centre is 54.6° of latitude, about 6,070 km, farther north than Mozambique's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Mozambique	2.11×
More people	Japan	4.17×
More crowded	Japan	8.81×
Farther north	Japan	54.6° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Japan	1.6× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Mozambique	Japan
Belgium 30,700 km²	25.7×	12.2×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	3.23×	1.53×
Germany 358,000 km²	2.20×	1.04×
France 548,000 km²	1.44×	0.68×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.25×	0.12×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.09×	0.04×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.08×	0.04×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.05×	0.02×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Mozambique	Japan
Area, main territory	788,000 km²304,000 mi²	374,000 km²144,000 mi²
Population	29.7 millionWikidata, 2017	123.8 millionWikidata, 2024
Density	38 per km²	331 per km²
Official area	802,000 km²Wikidata	378,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Maputo	Tokyo
Latitude range	27°S to 10°S	24°N to 46°N
Continent	Africa	Asia

Population: Wikidata 2017 and Wikidata 2024, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 802,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 788,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 378,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 374,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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