Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 21 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 2,003% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (299,811 fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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