Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 3.3 times bigger than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 232% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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