“Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland’s size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map,” the outlet explained. On these maps ...

A view shows the city of Nuuk, Greenland, February 9, 2025. Greenland is still pretty big. Depending on how you define its political status, it's around the 12th largest nation in the world.

“It has kind of put Greenland on the world map. And it’s definitely a situation that Raw Arctic has used to our advantage,” he said.

It’s massive.’ That should be part of the United States.” Yet many commentators have pointed out what any true map-lover knows: Greenland is not actually as big as it appears on most maps.