Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 4.9 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 394% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.4 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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