Japan
Eastern Asia · Tokyo
Everything Mapfold knows about Japan, and the 2 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Japan in figures
- Capital
- Tokyo
- Region
- Eastern Asia
- Area
- 377,930 km²
- Population
- 123,366,734
- Density
- 326.4 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 0
- Coast
- No land border
- Highest point
- 3,777 m
- Mean temperature
- 11.8 °C
- Life expectancy
- 84 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 35,951
- Urban
- 92.3 %
- Forest
- 68.4 %
Japan in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Japan answers to it. This is not a fact about Japan so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Japan
2 answers are enough to leave Japan alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
More than 60% of it is forest.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Japan unusual
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 of 192 countriesMore than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countriesMore than fifty million people live there.
31 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- LOCATION
It spans more than 20° of longitude.
17 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than fifty million people live there.
31 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It shares no land border with anyone.
37 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Asia.
46 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages under 12 °C all year.
49 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at most one country.
54 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is denser than 150 people per square kilometre.
56 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
73 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is above $12,000.
78 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is above 75.
85 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages cooler than 22 °C all year.
88 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than ten million people live there.
95 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 30% of it is forest.
100 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers more than 100,000 km².
107 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
133 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It touches the sea.
149 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
More than a million people live there.
156 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Japan compares
Which countries border Japan
Japan shares no land border with anyone.
Play Mapfold with Japan
Mapfold hides one country a day. Japan is one of the ones it can hide — and unlimited practice is free.
PLAY MAPFOLD