Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 18 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 1,671% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.3 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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