Which is bigger - Japan or Britain?

Question:

Britain, including England, Scotland and Wales (not including Ireland+Northern Island).

Thanks.

Answer:

To one of the previous posters. Actually Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain. Since Great Britain is the island but the country is called the United Kingdom, formal name being The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which includes territories not just on the island of Great Britain.

Also the pop of Japan is 127,900,000
Pop of Gr Britain is 60,000,000
pop of UK 62,200,000

As for the answer to the actual question.
Japan made up of 4 main islands
Honshu 88,017 sq miles
Hokkaido 32,222
Kyushu 13,761
Shikoku 72,060
total area of all of Japan including other smaller islands145,925 sq miles.

Area of UK 94,060
Great Britain 88,745 sq miles

So the main island of Honshu is slightly smaller than the island of Great Britain but Japan is much larger than Great Britain or the United Kingdom