Greenland vs United States: which is bigger?
The United States is bigger: 9,826,675 km² against 2,166,086 km², about 4.5 times the size of Greenland.
Drop Greenland onto the United States →Side by side at true size
Both drawn at the same scale on an equal-area projection.
And on the usual world map
On the usual world map it's the other way round: Greenland looks 1.58 times bigger than the United States, because the map inflates Greenland about 16 times and the United States only 2.3 times.
In numbers
- Greenland: 2,166,086 km² (836,000 sq mi), 12th largest, around 73°N
- United States: 9,826,675 km² (3,790,000 sq mi), 3rd largest, around 40°N
- Greenland would fit into the United States about 4.5 times.
Areas: official totals including inland water (UN Statistics Division via Wikidata). Outlines: Natural Earth. How Globegami works