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The total area of Greenland is 2,166,086 km 2 (836,330 sq mi) (including other offshore minor islands), of which the Greenland ice sheet covers 1,755,637 km 2 (677,855 sq mi) (81%) and has a volume of approximately 2,850,000 km 3 (680,000 cu mi). [90]
Greenland is the 12th largest country and is known as the largest island in the world. Due to its massive size and a tiny population of less than 57.000, it is the least densely populated country with 0,026 people per square kilometer.
Greenland is separated from Canada’s Ellesmere Island to the north by only 16 miles (26 km). The nearest European country is Iceland, lying about 200 miles (320 km) across the Denmark Strait to the southeast. Greenland’s deeply indented coastline is 24,430 miles (39,330 km) long, a distance roughly equivalent to Earth’s circumference at ...
Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world —and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list).
Covering an area of 2,166,086 sq. km, Greenland (about 80% of which is ice covered) is the world’s largest (non-continent) island and the 3 rd largest in North America. It is also one of the least densely populated regions in the world.
2. How big is Greenland? Greenland is the largest island in the world that is not a continent (Australia is much larger, but is also a continent). It has an area of 2,175,600km 2, which to put it into perspective, is the size of Western Europe, about 1/3 the size of the United States, or equivalent to the size of Eastern Australia.
GDP - composition, by sector of origin. comparison rankings: services 69; industry 165; agriculture 45.
The main island of Greenland has an area of 822,700 square miles (2,130,800 square kilometers), which makes it the world's largest island. [2] Politically, Greenland (and its surrounding minor islands) is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. [3]
The continent of Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland, but on many maps they're roughly the same size.
Located in the North Atlantic Ocean, Greenland is the world’s largest island. The island—a territory of Denmark—is more than three times the size of the state of Texas. Its nearest neighbor is...