---
title: "India vs Japan — area, population, currency"
description: "India is 3,287,263 km² with 1,463,865,525 people; Japan is 377,915 km² with 123,366,734. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-japan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# India vs Japan

**India vs Japan: India is larger; India has more people**

3,287,263 km² vs 377,915 km² · 1,463,865,525 vs 123,366,734

India is 8.7 times larger than Japan — 3,287,263 against 377,915 km². India is 12 times more populous than Japan — 1,463,865,525 against 123,366,734 people.

## Side by side

|  | India | Japan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | New Delhi | Tokyo |
| Area | 3,287,263 km² | 377,915 km² |
| Population | 1,463,865,525 (2025) | 123,366,734 (2025) |
| Density | 445.3 /km² | 326.4 /km² |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) | Japanese yen (JPY) |
| Official languages | Hindi, English | Japanese |
| Time zones | UTC+05:30 | UTC+09:00 |
| Calling code | +91 | +81 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | IN / IND | JP / JPN |

## Population density

India is 1.4 times more densely populated than Japan — 445 against 326 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

- Different currencies: the Indian rupee and the Japanese yen.

## India

The most populous country in the world since 2023. The Ganges-Brahmaputra system drains the southern Himalaya into the largest delta on Earth, and Mawsynram and Cherrapunji in Meghalaya are the wettest inhabited places on record, with roughly 11 m of rain a year. Mumbai is the largest individual municipality; the Delhi urban agglomeration, which contains the capital, is larger still at around 33 million.

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is India bigger than Japan?

India is larger — 3,287,263 km² against 377,915 km².

### Which has more people, India or Japan?

India, with 1,463,865,525 against 123,366,734.

### What is the time difference between India and Japan?

India is UTC+05:30 and Japan is UTC+09:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]