Country size comparison

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Denmark is about 2.4 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, making Denmark 41.84% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (5.6 million more people live in Denmark).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Denmark uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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