Country size comparison

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Japan is about 6 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 17.45% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (124.2 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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