Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 7 times bigger than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 557% larger than Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.8 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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