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Greenland vs Saudi Arabia: true size

Nearly a tie: Greenland and Saudi Arabia differ by barely 1% in area: about 2,166,086 km² against 2,149,690 km².

Greenland sits in North America, Saudi Arabia in Asia. On the old Mercator map the latitude gap distorted how large each felt beside the other; at true size the answer is simply 1.01×.

The old map muddied it further: Mercator inflates Greenland about 11.8× and Saudi Arabia about 1.2×, so on a Mercator-style map this pair appears 9.9× apart instead of the true 1.01×.

Saudi Arabia fits 1× into Greenland.

Greenland vs Saudi Arabia: key figures

Measure	Greenland	Saudi Arabia
True area	2,166,086 km² · #12	2,149,690 km² · #13
Mercator inflation	11.8×	1.2×
Apparent on Mercator	25,576,494 km²	2,579,198 km²

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