How small is Greenland, really?

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1. Greenland, at its true size: 2.15 million km². On most maps, it looks almost as big as Africa.
2. Algeria alone — Africa's biggest country — is already bigger, at 2.32 million km².
3. So is India: 3.16 million km², about half again the size of Greenland.
4. So is Kazakhstan, on the far side of the world from either of them.
5. The United States is more than four times the size of Greenland — not the near-match Mercator suggests.
6. And Africa, where this story started? It's almost fourteen times the size of Greenland.

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