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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.
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.
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. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
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 ...
Greenland (Denmark) 0 2166086 0 Grenada 0 344 0 Guadeloupe (France) 0 1630 0 Guam (United States) 0 549 0 Guernsey (United Kingdom) 0 78 0 Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia) 0 412 0 Iceland 0 103000 0 Isle of Man (United Kingdom) 0 572 0 Jamaica 0 10991 0 Japan 0 377930 0 Jersey (United Kingdom) 0 116 0 Kiribati 0 811 0 Madagascar
The 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement provides a legal and historical basis for the United States to assert greater control over Greenland, which is increasingly critical for national security ...
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.