are greenland and africa the same size?
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"On the Mercator projection Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland is 2 million square kilometres and Africa is 30 million square kilometres, nearly 14 and a half times larger." The tool allows users to search for a country and then move it around the map.
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South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 707% larger than South Africa.
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Africa is a continent, the Philippines are an archipelago. Africa is big, with great variation of climate and topography; the Philippines are smaller, with less variation.
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Africas physical geography, environment and resources, and human geography can be considered separately. Africa has eight major physical regions: the Sahara, the Sahel, the Ethiopian Highlands, the savanna, the Swahili Coast, the rain forest, the African Great Lakes, and Southern Africa.
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Africa is called the plateau continent because almost the entire continent is raised above sea level and drops sharply off at the coast.
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The continent of Africa borders the southern half of the Mediterranean Sea. The Atlantic Ocean is to the west and the Indian Ocean is to the Southeast. Africa stretches well south of the equator to cover more than 12 million square miles making Africa the world's second largest continent.
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No. Africa is the second biggest continent in the world, and is about 30 million sq kilometres in surface area. This follows that the biggest - obviously - cannot fit into Africa (in other words, Asia).
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["Cape Peninsula. The Cape Peninsula juts out into the Atlantic at Africa's south western corner. ... ", 'Cape Agulhas. ... ', 'Cape of Good Hope.']
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Geographically, Asia is the major eastern constituent of the continent of Eurasia with Europe being a northwestern peninsula of the landmass. Asia, Europe and Africa make up a single continuous landmass—Afro-Eurasia (except for the Suez Canal)—and share a common continental shelf.
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The UN subregion of North Africa consists of 7 countries at the northernmost part of the continent -- Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara. North Africa is an economically prosperous area, generating one-third of Africa's total GDP.
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But it's not even close. Africa is 14 times larger. Flat maps significantly distort the sizes of countries and continents, the result of converting a spherical surface to a handy rectangle. ... On our actual planet, Africa is bigger than China, India, the contiguous U.S. and most of Europe—combined!
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Iceland is an island northwest of The United Kingdom and Norway. Iceland is bordered by the Greenland Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
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If we consider Greenland to be part of North America but ignore Iceland, then the shortest distance between North America and Europe is from eastern Greenland (74.541 N, 18.512 W) to Hovden, Norway (68.815 N, 14.541 W) at 1303 km.
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Nigeria has the largest population of Africa. As of 2020, the country counted 206 million individuals, whereas Ethiopia, which ranked second, had 115 million inhabitants. Egypt registered the largest population in North Africa, reaching 102 million people.
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As a whole, the Arctic is home to far more animals than the Antarctic. This is helped by the fact that Arctic territories are connected to continents like North America, Europe or Asia; while Antarctic is a harsh and isolated continent. In fact, the largest land animal on the continent is a wingless insect.
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South America is 8.2 times larger than Greenland. South America is 8.2 times larger than Greenland.
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Greenland is about 9 times bigger than United Kingdom. United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 789% larger than United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~64.4 million people (64.4 million fewer people live in Greenland).