Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 1.2 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 84.23% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.0 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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