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Greenland Native name: Grønland Kalaallit Nunaat Outline map of Greenland with ice sheet depths. (Much of the area in green has permanent snow cover, but less than 10m (33ft) thick.) Geography Location Between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean Coordinates 64°10′N 51°43′W / 64.167°N 51.717°W / 64.167; -51.717 Area 2,166,086 km 2 (836,330 sq mi) Area rank 1st ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick and over 3 km (1.9 mi) thick at its maximum. [2]
Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in North America by area. [1] The region includes Canada, the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Central America, Greenland, Mexico, and the United States. Canada is the largest country in North America and the Western Hemisphere.
Greenland appears the same size as Africa, when in reality Africa's area is 14 times as large. [13] Greenland's real area is comparable to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's alone. Africa appears to be roughly the same size as South America, when in reality Africa is over one and a half times as large.
This map puts all of Earth's land mass in the shape of a chicken. ... USA TODAY Sports. Bob Uecker, Hall of Famer and legendary broadcaster, dies at 90. Weather. Weather. USA TODAY.
Rest of Greenland – UTC-02; Extreme points of Greenland. High: Gunnbjørn Fjeld 3,700 m (12,139 ft) – highest point in the Arctic; Low: Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: Canada 1,280 m (4,200 feet) Coastline: 44,087 km; Population of Greenland: 56,344; Area of Greenland: 2,166,086 km 2; Atlas of Greenland