Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 21 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 2,012% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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