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Guinness World Records says the smallest park in the world is now in Japan, measuring 372 square inches; 80 square inches smaller than Mill Ends Park.

A park roughly the size of four sheets of A4 paper in Japan’s central prefecture of Shizuoka was recently crowned the world’s smallest, according to Guinness World Records.

Guinness World Records says the smallest park in the world is now in Japan, measuring 372 square inches; 80 square inches smaller than Mill Ends Park.