It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. In fact, it's 14 times smaller than ...

areas farthest from the equator appear disproportionately large. The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination ... about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map.