True size · Brazil
How big is Brazil?
Brazil measures 8,499,526 km² on this map. Greenland is 2,154,786 km², so Brazil is 3.9 times larger. The wall map has that backwards.
Brazil8,499,526 km²
On this map5th largest country
Versus Greenland3.9 times larger
Versus Australia793,403 km² larger
Greenland sits near the pole, so Mercator inflates it. Brazil sits on the equator, so Mercator leaves it alone. Same map, opposite favours.
Brazil on Equal Earth. Open the Greenland comparison if you want the island dragged south until the costume comes off. Open this scene on the full map.
Areas are the shapes drawn on Map Real Size, measured on the sphere. Official land-area tables differ where they include inland water, a different coastline, or a disputed border. Greenland isn’t bigger than Brazil.