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English: Comparison of the areas of the smallest continent, Australia, and the largest island, Greenland. The two map projections are Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projections, centered on mainland Australia and mainland Greenland, respectively.
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...
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.
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2013 - Greenland ends the territory's 25-year ban on the mining of radioactive materials such as uranium, leading to a boom in mineral resource exports. 2021 - Greenland bans all new oil and gas ...
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. Alaska appears to be the same size as Australia, although Australia is actually 4.5 times as large.
Greenland [e] is an autonomous territory [f] in the Kingdom of Denmark. [15] [16] It is the largest of three constituent parts of the kingdom, the other two being metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of all territories are full citizens of Denmark. Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European ...
Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its present size in 1988. It protects 972,000 km 2 (375,000 sq mi) [2] of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is larger than the area of Tanzania, but smaller than that of Egypt. This means that the national park is bigger than 166 of the world's 195 countries.