Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 12 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 8.14% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (3.3 million more people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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