Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 1.2 times bigger than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 23% larger than Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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