Country size comparison

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Greenland is around the same size as Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 90.95% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~47.4 million people (47.4 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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