Country size comparison

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Alabama is about 16 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 6.07% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (4.7 million more people live in Alabama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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