Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 3.6 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 27.98% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (26.1 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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