Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 2.3 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 42.65% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~56,831 people (237.5 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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