Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 52 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 5,114% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (17.3 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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