Japan vs Morocco

Morocco is 1.9 times larger than Japan — 716,550 against 377,915 km². Japan is 3.2 times more populous than Morocco — 123,366,734 against 38,430,770 people.

Side by side

Population density

Japan is 6.1 times more densely populated than Morocco — 326 against 54 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 — Japan on the left, Morocco on the right.
• Different currencies: the Japanese yen and the Moroccan dirham.
• Different continents — Asia and Africa.

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.

Morocco

Toubkal in the High Atlas is 4,167 m, the highest point in North Africa, and holds snow into early summer within sight of the desert. The Atlas ranges cut the country in two, wet Atlantic plains on one side and Sahara on the other.

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.