No, Greenland is not bigger than Africa. In reality, Africa is roughly 14 times larger than Greenland. [1, 2]

While they may appear roughly equal in size on many common world maps, this is simply a visual distortion caused by the Mercator projection, which stretches landmasses near the poles to flatten a spherical Earth into a 2D surface. [1, 2]

The contrast in their true dimensions is staggering: [1]

• Africa: 11.7 million square miles (30.4 million square kilometers)
• Greenland: 836,000 square miles (2.16 million square kilometers) [1]

In fact, Greenland is actually smaller than a single African country—the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To explore exactly how landmasses compare without map distortion, you can use interactive tools like The True Size to visually drag and compare different countries and continents. [1, 2, 3]

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