Algeria is 1.06× the size of Greenland (island)

Algeria (country) covers about 2,309,000 km² (891,000 mi²) and Greenland (island) (island) about 2,171,000 km² (838,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Greenland (island) outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

2,309,000km²Algeria
2,171,000km²Greenland (island)

500 km

Algeria
Greenland (island)

What fits

Greenland (island) is 94% of the size of Algeria.
Algeria is larger by 137,000 km² (53,100 mi²), which is 6.3% of the area of Greenland (island).
Measured in Belgiums: Algeria is about 75.3, Greenland (island) about 70.8.

How they differ

Their centres are about 5,640 km apart.
On a standard web map Greenland (island) looks larger than Algeria: Algeria at 28°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and Greenland (island) at 73°N about 11.8×, so the map shows Greenland (island) as 8.65× the size of Algeria, when Algeria is 1.06× the size of Greenland (island).
Together Algeria and Greenland (island) cover 4,480,000 km², close to the size of India (3,151,000 km², 30% smaller).
The gap between them, 137,000 km², is about the size of Bangladesh (137,000 km²).
Greenland (island)'s centre is 45.0° of latitude, about 5,010 km, farther north than Algeria's.
Algeria ranks 11th of 212 countries by area.
Greenland (island) is an island and ranks 1st of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Algeria stretches about 2,020 km north to south and 2,070 km east to west; Greenland (island) about 2,640 km by 1,440 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 2,166,000 km² agrees with our measured 2,171,000 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Algeria	1.06×
Farther north	Greenland (island)	45.0° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Greenland (island)	11.8× against 1.3×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Algeria	Greenland (island)
Belgium 30,700 km²	75.3×	70.8×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	9.47×	8.91×
Germany 358,000 km²	6.46×	6.07×
Japan 374,000 km²	6.18×	5.81×
France 548,000 km²	4.21×	3.96×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.73×	0.69×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.27×	0.26×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.24×	0.23×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.14×	0.13×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Algeria	Greenland (island)
Is a	CountryAfrica	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	2,309,000 km²891,000 mi²	2,171,000 km²838,000 mi²
Area, published	2,382,000 km²Wikidata	2,166,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	11th of 212countries	1st of 81islands
Latitude range	19°N to 37°N	60°N to 84°N
On the shore	–	1 on the shore

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Greenland contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Greenland (island). That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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