Greenland (island) is 1.11× the size of Mexico

Greenland (island) (island) covers about 2,171,000 km² (838,000 mi²) and Mexico (country) about 1,958,000 km² (756,000 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.

2,171,000km²Greenland (island)
1,958,000km²Mexico

500 km

Greenland (island)
Mexico

What fits

Mexico is 90% of the size of Greenland (island).
Greenland (island) is larger by 214,000 km² (82,500 mi²), which is 11% of the area of Mexico.
Measured in Belgiums: Greenland (island) is about 70.8, Mexico about 63.8.

How they differ

Their centres are about 6,530 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Greenland (island) at 73°N is drawn about 11.8× too large and Mexico at 24°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Greenland (island) as 10.9× the size of Mexico instead of 1.11×.
Together Greenland (island) and Mexico cover 4,129,000 km², close to the size of India (3,151,000 km², 24% smaller).
The gap between them, 214,000 km², is about the size of Guyana (211,000 km²).
Greenland (island)'s centre is 49.2° of latitude, about 5,470 km, farther north than Mexico's.
Greenland (island) is an island and ranks 1st of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Mexico ranks 13th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Greenland (island) stretches about 2,640 km north to south and 1,440 km east to west; Mexico about 2,040 km by 2,990 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	Greenland (island)	1.11×
Farther north	Greenland (island)	49.2° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Greenland (island)	11.8× against 1.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Greenland (island)	Mexico
Belgium 30,700 km²	70.8×	63.8×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	8.91×	8.03×
Germany 358,000 km²	6.07×	5.47×
Japan 374,000 km²	5.81×	5.24×
France 548,000 km²	3.96×	3.57×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.69×	0.62×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.26×	0.23×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.23×	0.21×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.13×	0.12×

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

Side by side

	Greenland (island)	Mexico
Is a	Islandisland on sizeversus	CountryNorth America
Area, measured	2,171,000 km²838,000 mi²	1,958,000 km²756,000 mi²
Area, published	2,166,000 km²Wikidata	1,961,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 81islands	13th of 212countries
Latitude range	60°N to 84°N	15°N to 33°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.

Similar in size to Greenland (island)

Similar in size to Mexico

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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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