Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 21 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 4.76% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (299,811 more people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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