---
title: "Japan vs Palestine — area, population, currency"
description: "Japan is 377,915 km² with 123,366,734 people; Palestine is 6,220 km² with 5,413,596. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-palestine/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Japan vs Palestine

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

377,915 km² vs 6,220 km² · 123,366,734 vs 5,413,596

Japan is 61 times larger than Palestine — 377,915 against 6,220 km². Japan is 23 times more populous than Palestine — 123,366,734 against 5,413,596 people.

## Side by side

|  | Japan | Palestine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Tokyo | Ramallah |
| Area | 377,915 km² | 6,220 km² |
| Population | 123,366,734 (2025) | 5,413,596 (2025) |
| Density | 326.4 /km² | 870.4 /km² |
| Currency | Japanese yen (JPY) | Israeli new shekel (ILS) |
| Official languages | Japanese | Arabic |
| Time zones | UTC+09:00 | UTC+02:00 |
| Calling code | +81 | +970 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | Asia |
| ISO codes | JP / JPN | PS / PSE |

## Population density

Palestine is 2.7 times more densely populated than Japan — 870 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

- They drive on opposite sides — Japan on the left, Palestine on the right.
- Different currencies: the Japanese yen and the Israeli new shekel.

## 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.

## Palestine

The territory is in two separate parts: the West Bank, about 5,860 km², and the Gaza Strip, about 360 km². The West Bank includes the northern shore of the Dead Sea, the lowest exposed land on Earth at roughly 430 m below sea level. Jericho, in the Jordan Valley, is among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements known, with remains going back around 11,000 years.

> 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 Japan bigger than Palestine?

Japan is larger — 377,915 km² against 6,220 km².

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

Japan, with 123,366,734 against 5,413,596.

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

Japan is UTC+09:00 and Palestine is UTC+02:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country/palestine/)
- [India vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-japan/)
- [India vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-palestine/)
- [China vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-japan/)
- [China vs Palestine](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-palestine/)
- [Japan vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-united-states/)
- [Japan vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Japan vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-new-zealand/)
- [Japan vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-russia/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-spain/)
- [Japan vs South Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-south-korea/)
- [Japan vs Netherlands](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-netherlands/)

## 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]