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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]
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
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 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.
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.
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A high border/area ratio means that the country or territory has a long border compared to its surface area. ... Greenland (Denmark) 0 2166086 0 ... (Australia) 0 36 0