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Superlative Degree

Japan is one of the richest country in the world. I think it is wrong.

Japan is one of the richest countries in the world. It is correct. Is it?

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"Japan is one of the richest country in the world." I think that's wrong.

"Japan is one of the richest countries in the world?" Is that correct?

Yes. There are a number of rich countries in the world, and Japan is one of them.

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Dear friend,
I am not giving importance to the sentence.
I hope you answered grammaticaly.
I am not asking whether Japan is a richest country or not.
I am giving importance "country" and "countries".

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Quite simple.

In English, countries is plural and country is singular.

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Japan is one of the richest countries in the world. CORRECT
(There are many countries in this world and Japan is richest of them.)
Here we will not use country . Since you added in the world we are talking about the countries in the whole world.