Japan and the United States, a 1920 map

This is a map of Japan, superimposed on the United States. A few notes:

• The United States is currently 3,806,000 square miles, but was 3,026,784 at the time of this map, circa 1920 (before Alasaka and Hawaii)
• The current size of Japan is approximately 145,925 square miles; the figure listed above, 260,737, may have included Imperial Japan’s overseas holdings such as Taiwan and Korea.
• Similarly, the population of Japan, per Wikipedia, was 56 million in 1920; the additional 20 million must have been persons in colonized territories.

See also:

• Tokyo against the World: comparative maps

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