Country size comparison

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New York is about 18 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 5.65% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (19.3 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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