Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 21 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 4.73% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (7.9 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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