Countries closest to Japan

Can you name the 12 closest sovereign states to Japan?

Hong Kong and Macau are not considered individual countries for this quiz

This quiz accepts sovereign nations only, not overseas territories or dependencies

"Japan" includes the four chief islands and the remaining 6848 smaller islands

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Miles Away	Answer
27	Russia
31	South Korea
67	Taiwan
205	China
261	North Korea
353	Philippines
968	Vietnam
1019	Mongolia
1158	Laos
1207	Cambodia
1233	Malaysia
1269	Thailand

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5 Comments

Level 88

Dec 24, 2014

Busan is only about 130 miles from Fukuoka, but South Korea is listed as being 585.4 miles from Japan. What distance is being measured?

Level 83

Dec 27, 2014

Something appears to be inconsistent. Not sure how USA can qualify and not some others. It would help to indicate whether the distance is between capital cities or something else.

Level 57

Dec 28, 2014

Russia 2250+ miles? Come on! It's not even 10 miles.

Level 31

Dec 29, 2014

Apologies for the misinformation! The website I obtained the data from was inconsistent in terms of where it measured Japan from the other countries! Hopefully all is remedied now.

Level 34

Sep 26, 2022

IK im late to the party but bro you got hated on man