Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 15 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 1,397% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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