Country size comparison

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Russia is about 8 times bigger than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 689% larger than Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (142.0 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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