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Delaware vs Japan Geography
Land area
- Delaware has a land area of 1,949 square miles (5,047 km²), while Japan has 140,752 square miles (364,546 km²).
- Japan's land area is 72.2 times larger than Delaware's.
Total area
- Delaware: 2,489 square miles (6,446 km²) vs Japan: 145,937 square miles (377,975 km²), including inland and coastal water.
- Japan's total area is 58.6 times larger than Delaware's.
Length
- Delaware is 98 miles (158 km) long from north to south; Japan is 1,557 miles (2,505 km).
- Japan's north-south length is 15.9 times longer than Delaware's.
Width
- Delaware spans 96 miles (155 km) east to west; Japan spans 1,568 miles (2,524 km).
- Japan's east-west width is 16.3 times wider than Delaware's.
Highest point
- Delaware's highest point is Ebright Azimuth at 450 feet (137 m); Japan's is Mount Fuji at 12,388 feet (3,776 m).
- Mount Fuji is 11,938 feet higher than Ebright Azimuth.
Lowest point
- Delaware's lowest point is Atlantic Ocean at 0 feet; Japan's is Hachirogata at -13 feet.
- Japan's lowest point is 13 feet lower.
Delaware vs Japan Population and History
Population
- Delaware has a population of 1,051,917 (2024), while Japan has 122,680,000 (2026).
- Japan's population is 116.6 times larger than Delaware's.
Population density
- Delaware: 539.9 people per square mile vs Japan: 871.6.
- Japan's population density is 1.6 times (61%) higher than Delaware's.
Biggest city
- Delaware's biggest city is Wilmington with 73,176 people; Japan's is Tokyo with 13,515,271.
- Tokyo's population is 184.7 times larger than Wilmington's.
Largest metro area
- Delaware's largest metropolitan area is Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area (6,330,422 people) vs Japan's Tokyo (33,412,512).
- Tokyo's population is 5.3 times (428%) larger than Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area's.
History
- Delaware: Admitted to the Union on December 7, 1787, as the 1st state.
- Japan: An independent state for over two millennia; the current constitution dates from 1947.
- In its current form, Japan is the older of the two by 1,127 years.
Delaware vs Japan Economy
GDP
- Delaware's GDP is $111.0 billion (2024) vs Japan's $4,435.2 billion.
- Japan's economic output is 40.0 times larger than Delaware's.
GDP per capita
- Delaware: $105,495 per person vs Japan: $35,951.
- Delaware's GDP per capita is 2.9 times (193%) higher than Japan's.
Average income
- Delaware: $68,061 vs Japan: $38,340 average income per person (per capita personal income).
- Delaware's average income is 1.8 times (78%) higher than Japan's.
Official Websites
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