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The United States is much bigger, about four and a half times bigger. Earth is round, but maps usually show the Earth on rectangular pages, resulting in a distortion of the sizes of countries. Areas of land near the poles, such as Greenland get stretched out on the maps and so they look like they are much bigger than they really are. On a map like that Greenland looks huge, but in fact it isn't. It is only really on a globe that you will see how big it really is compared to other countries.

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