Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 16 times bigger than Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 1,548% larger than Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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