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Comment author: Stabilizer 23 April 2013 11:26:46PM 4 points [-]

Likewise. I was thinking that it'd be about a rich European nation. I was very surprised because Japan is tiny in area; it's smaller than Montana.

Another fun population fact: there are about 250 million people in Indonesia.

Comment author: Roxolan 24 April 2013 06:03:58AM 10 points [-]

Making it the largest Muslim country in the world.

(Before learning this fact, Indonesia wasn't even on my radar when discussing Islam. It's quite moderate, so it rarely makes the news.)

Comment author: JackV 24 April 2013 08:19:33PM 6 points [-]

And the fourth largest country of any sort :)

Comment author: Larks 24 April 2013 07:49:41PM 2 points [-]

India is the second biggest