Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 6 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 473% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (124.2 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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