---
title: "Japan vs Venezuela — area, population, currency"
description: "Japan is 377,915 km² with 123,366,734 people; Venezuela is 912,050 km² with 28,516,896. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Japan vs Venezuela

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

377,915 km² vs 912,050 km² · 123,366,734 vs 28,516,896

Venezuela is 2.4 times larger than Japan — 912,050 against 377,915 km². Japan is 4.3 times more populous than Venezuela — 123,366,734 against 28,516,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Japan | Venezuela |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Tokyo | Caracas |
| Area | 377,915 km² | 912,050 km² |
| Population | 123,366,734 (2025) | 28,516,896 (2025) |
| Density | 326.4 /km² | 31.3 /km² |
| Currency | Japanese yen (JPY) | Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES) |
| Official languages | Japanese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+09:00 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +81 | +58 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Asia | South America |
| ISO codes | JP / JPN | VE / VEN |

## Population density

Japan is 10 times more densely populated than Venezuela — 326 against 31 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, Venezuela on the right.
- Different currencies: the Japanese yen and the Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
- Different continents — Asia and South America.

## 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.

## Venezuela

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

> 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 Venezuela?

Venezuela is larger — 912,050 km² against 377,915 km².

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

Japan, with 123,366,734 against 28,516,896.

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

Japan is UTC+09:00 and Venezuela is UTC-04:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/)
- [United States vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-states-vs-venezuela/)
- [India vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-japan/)
- [India vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-venezuela/)
- [China vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-japan/)
- [China vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-venezuela/)
- [United Kingdom vs Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-kingdom-vs-venezuela/)
- [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/)

## 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]