Why is Greenland not recognized as a continent?

[Breezy]

In addition to the reasons everyone else has listed greenlnad isn't even one solid piece of land. Without the ice it would appear like a large archipelago with an inland sea separating several large and small island groupings.

http://i.imgur.com/9j9XAwh.png

[Trollsmasher]

And Mercator counts another victim

[deja vu]

Africa - 11,668,599 sq miles

Greenland - 836,109 sq miles






OP is dumb as rocks as usual.

Holy moly. The Sahara Desert is as big as the entire United States.

[MMM]

Africa - 11,668,599 sq miles

Greenland - 836,109 sq miles






OP is dumb as rocks as usual.

damn the horn is the same size as India

[ForeverHeat]

I have always suspected Akrazotile of having some sort of mental impediment, but this just takes the cake. The generic world map image is not to scale idiot. Go to school you dumb f*g.

[eliteballer]

In addition to the reasons everyone else has listed greenlnad isn't even one solid piece of land. Without the ice it would appear like a large archipelago with an inland sea separating several large and small island groupings.

http://i.imgur.com/9j9XAwh.png

That is very interesting. What about Russia and Antarctica?

[eliteballer]

Holy moly. The Sahara Desert is as big as the entire United States.

It's actually bigger than the lower 48. It covers all of North Africa IE Egypt Libya etc.

You have to add Alaska to make the sizes comparable.

[MMM]

OP got a 2 page and growing thread
bout nothing

[eliteballer]

Africa: 30,221,532 km2

China: 9,596,961 km2

Russia: 17,098,242 km2 (Crimea not included)

US(Lower 48): 8,080,464.3 km2

Canada: 9,984,670 km2

US with Alaska+Hawaii and territories: 9,826,675 km2

Australia: 7,692,024 km2

Antarctica: 14,000,000 km2

India: 3,287,590 km2

European Union: 4,381,376 km2

South America: 17,840,000 km2

Pacific Ocean: 165,250,000 km2

Atlantic Ocean: 106,400,000 km2

Greenland: 2,166,086 km2(83% water)

[eliteballer]

You have to look at an actual globe to see how the real sizes look in comparison visually.

[eliteballer]

One thing to remember regarding size is what it actually encompasses.

For example:

Most of China is desert, that's why most of it's population is in the East

Russia is also mostly barren. Ditto for Australia and Canada. However by their sheer size they still have a ton of resources relatively speaking in a country comparison.

The US has the most arable land in the world(land where you can farm)

India has the second most arable land in the world.

I believe Africa has more arable land than the rest of the world combined.

[kurple]

why do people live in norway?

because we got a shitload oil, a very high miminum wage, free health care and the best looking bitches in the world

[kurple]

America ain't got room for em all

i can think of one thing america has that we dont have in norway. KFC

[Balla_Status]

Australia has a population smaller than Texas. Realize that shit.

[Meticode]

Greeland is way smaller than people think. It's not even close to the size of Africa, it looks that big becuase you're basically taking a map which is a globe or sphere and laying it out flat, which distorts the landmass sizes.

Here's what Greenland looks like if you put it on an actual globe...