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📏 🇯🇵 Japan
The whole world, measured in Japans
London is 6.9 Japans away. Hover over (or tap) anywhere on the map to see how many Japans away it is.
Drawing the map…
How we measure
1 Japan = 1,248 km (775 mi), the longest straight line you can draw across Japan. Distances run along the Earth’s surface from the nearest edge of Japan (its main landmass: far-off islands and overseas territories aren’t counted), so anywhere inside it is 0 Japans away.
The farthest you can get from Japan
15.3 Japans
19,038 km (11,830 mi) away, in the South Atlantic Ocean (Nearest land: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1,036 km away). That’s near the exact opposite side of the planet.
Famous cities, in Japans
| City | Japans | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | inside! | 0 km |
| China | 1.1 Japans | 1,387 km |
| United States | 4.6 Japans | 5,742 km |
| India | 4.7 Japans | 5,804 km |
| Russia | 5.4 Japans | 6,726 km |
| Australia | 6 Japans | 7,529 km |
| United States | 6.3 Japans | 7,904 km |
| United Kingdom | 6.9 Japans | 8,632 km |
| France | 7.1 Japans | 8,814 km |
| Egypt | 7.1 Japans | 8,921 km |
| Italy | 7.3 Japans | 9,079 km |
| United States | 7.8 Japans | 9,782 km |
| Mexico | 8.3 Japans | 10,383 km |
| Nigeria | 10.3 Japans | 12,834 km |
| South Africa | 11 Japans | 13,739 km |
| Brazil | 14 Japans | 17,459 km |
| Argentina | 14.2 Japans | 17,721 km |
More fun in Japans
- It takes 32.1 Japans to wrap all the way around the equator.
- A tunnel straight through the middle of the Earth would be 10.2 Japans long.
- The Moon is 308 Japans away.
- The International Space Station flies only 0.32 Japans up.