Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 50 times bigger than Denmark.

Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 4,926% larger than Denmark. Meanwhile, the population of Denmark is ~5.9 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Denmark vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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