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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.
Australia: 7,591,608 [Note 12] 2,931,136 Australia Mainland Australia is more than three times the size of Greenland, the largest island. [9] Australia is sometimes dubbed "The Island Continent" or "Earth's largest island, but its smallest continent". [10]
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.
Greenland : Greenland: 2,130,800 (822,700) It is thought that beneath the ice sheet Greenland may be three separate islands. [1] 1 ... Australia: Tasmania: 65,022
Greenland also contains the world's largest national park, and it is the largest constituent country by area in the world, and is the fourth largest country subdivision in the world, after Sakha Republic in Russia, Australia's state of Western Australia, and Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the largest in North America.
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. Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest country in North America overall, while El Salvador is the smallest country on the mainland.
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.
The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken).