Country size comparison
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Washington is about 13 times smaller than Greenland.
Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 7.96% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (6.7 million more people live in Washington).
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