Dominican Republic vs Japan

Japan is 7.8 times larger than Dominican Republic — 377,915 against 48,670 km². Japan is 11 times more populous than Dominican Republic — 123,366,734 against 11,520,487 people.

Side by side

Population density

Japan is 1.4 times more densely populated than Dominican Republic — 326 against 237 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Dominican Republic on the right, Japan on the left.
• Different currencies: the Dominican peso and the Japanese yen.
• Different continents — North America and Asia.

Dominican Republic

Shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Pico Duarte at 3,098 m is the highest point in the Caribbean, and Lago Enriquillo, at about 40 m below sea level, is the lowest — both in the same country. The lake is saltier than the sea and holds American crocodiles.

Japan

A 2023 government survey using digital mapping counted 14,125 islands, more than double the long-quoted figure of 6,852. About three-quarters of the land is mountain, so nearly everyone lives on a narrow band of coastal plain. Japan sits where four tectonic plates meet and records a fifth of the world's magnitude-6-and-above earthquakes.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.