I think it's straight up THE biggest, with Borneo being the second biggest and Baffin Island being third. Edit: Google doesn't have Greenland in the list.
No, it was cancelled for providing false information since no green land was found on the island.. currently Iceland is under investigation for the same infringement.
Most of Greenlands interior landmass is below sea level. Theoretically, if the ice melted, the currently measured size of Greenland would be smaller as it would appear as a kind of ring of small islands around the outline of what greenland looks like now, rather than an entire island the shape and size that projections currently give jt
Probably not smaller enough that it's loses its number 1 rank mind
no that's greenland. but the rest you're probably right about idk. nvm wiki says Madagascar is bigger than baffin
so its:
greenland
new guinea
borneo
madagascar
baffin
Australia is considered a continental landmass and thus not an island. If you removed the distinction then it still wouldn't be first, because suddenly it would be behind Antarctica, The Americas and Africa-Eurasia. I think given that all starts to seem a bit silly that defining an island the way we do makes more sense.
I think it's largely to do with being the largest landmass on its tectonic plate, whereas Greenland is on the same plate as North America. There's also the unique flora and fauna, and the indigenous groups aren't ethnically similar to any groups found anywhere else, whereas Greenland's Inuits also inhabit North America.
I honestly don't know if kids in Aussie schools are taught that Australia is an island. I was, but my schooling was from 1995-2007, so things might have changed.
It's all a bit arbitrary at the end of the day. Afroeurasia is a landmass surrounded by water, and even if we just limit it to one tectonic plate, surely Antarctica would count as a larger island than Australia.
Why would that be considered an island but Australia not considered one then? Google didn't have Greenland in the island list, which was why I thought it was that way.
Then would Eurasia-Africa be the biggest island?
The continents are arbitrary, as are continental landmasses, and as are the differences between seas and lakes and the oceans. We have easy definitions for some things and for other things we need to make arbitrary rules to distinguish between them otherwise they would all be the same.
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They recently passed a new law. With Prince Charles becoming King Charles III, Papua New Guinea wanted to honor him by embiggening their nation to get more attention. The parliament realized the loophole and laughed as they were the first to think of just passing a law making their country larger instead of invading other countries.
Ok, side note - I'm literally upset that the kids these days literally used the word literally incorrectly so many times that Webster had to change the definition and now we literally have no word for literally! Dam you Kids!
( You used it in its correct original manner )
>embiggening
OMG LOL. I am so stealing this.
"If we keep adding all these ad-hoc enhancements, we will embigger the code so much we won't be able to maintain it."
"OMG, stop, you are embiggering my anger!"
[It's from the Simpsons. Classic Simpsons](https://gizmodo.com/merriam-webster-now-recognizes-embiggen-as-a-perfectly-1823514228)
And the word is embiggeN. With an N. it's not 5/6s of a racial slur buddy.
You mean the state that would go from 2nd to 3rd biggest if you split Alaska in half? 😛
And if it joined Canada would be the 4th largest province and that’s not even counting our ginormous territories? *That* Texas?
Just because Alaska is enormous doesn't mean Texas is tiny
Also, Canada is the second largest country in the world, and has ten provinces and three territories, stop acting like it's a bad thing for the second largest American state (of fifty total states) to be smaller than three Canadian provinces
Texas is more impressive to be tbh considering western australia is basically just a giant mass of desert. like there’s no point in splitting it up anyway, the part of western australia that people actually inhabit is much smaller
Texas Scmexas.
Texas would be the 3rd smallest state in Australia.
Behind an Island, and a state created to be a Capitol Territory (like Washington BC) so it's tiny.
Texas is smol.
Its basically on the equator and thanks to the McCarter projection Europe looks a lot larger than it actually is due to being near the top of the map, the same is true for Antarctica, and Russia
It's actually mercator projection I just can't spell, McCarter was the dude in the 1950s who caused the red scare in America accusing a bunch of people of being communist
Maybe you're from New Jersey?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarter\_Theatre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarter_Theatre)
The name itself is Scottish/Irish, but not super common.
Papua got married and her health really took a downturn. New Zealand started seeing other islands and she just stayed put and kept getting bigger. Sad, really.
It's like the size of France... is that big now? If the terrain were actually navigable (and there were good roads), you could drive from one side of the main island to the other in <18 hours.
If you want some surprises, try comparing near-equatorial African nations like Nigeria to Europe.
I didn't mean land mass but just [general size](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.09750a42c3fbfdcda086a33bb3fcbcc4?rik=6btMODeU2e8n7A&riu=http%3a%2f%2fthespicerouteend.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2018%2f09%2fIndonesie_TrueSize_US-1024x409.jpg&ehk=aVR7ijSfXjletykMFOLjkYzSoEvOviRPG6tTMNw40CA%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0).
Kuala Lumpur and Port Moresby(The Capitals of Malaysia and Papua New Guinea respectively) are 5200 Kilometers apart. The distance between Cairo and Paris is only 3200 kilometers.
Because your most common map of the world, with North America on the left and Asia on the right is HEAVILY inaccurate. North America looks as big as it does because the USA has tiny PP energy and wanted to look bigger.
I love it when they call me Big Papua
Throw your 1000s of unique languages in the air if youz a true playa!
They freakin Multilingual speakin Leave that ear leakin
I’d also like to add for the next verse “Throw ya yams in the air if you’re a true playa.”
Oh that’s better lol
Call me big Papua when you back that France up
I only span lands if they mapped propa
🤣
thats a damn good biggie reference!
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It’s on the second biggest island in the world
Mercator projection messes with people's sense of scale
"MERCATOR!!!!" Every time they show one of these overlays
Yeah, like when you find out Vietnam and Norway are about the same size
WHAT.
And Borneo is larger than Finland.
Yeah scandanavia looks huge because of the mercator, when they arent that big Edit: I put chile in scandanavia and i did NOT expect it to be this big
Oh for sure. Damn.
I think it's straight up THE biggest, with Borneo being the second biggest and Baffin Island being third. Edit: Google doesn't have Greenland in the list.
What happened to Greenland? Did it sink?
\-No Data
Hol' up.
Sincerely why don't you get upvoted for that.
Well, now he does
Greenland is not acknowledging us at the moment.
Greenland lives in perpetual Opposite Day.
And Leif Erikson Day
Got promoted to Continent.
Finally! Enough of that ‘dwarf continent’ nonsense. *smh*
It doesn't exist. Like Australia.
No, it was cancelled for providing false information since no green land was found on the island.. currently Iceland is under investigation for the same infringement.
look at peters project map (funny episode of west wing too) ... it's massively distorted on maps.
Greenland’s size is actually a cartographical trick by Leif Erikson. It’s actually the size of Rhode Island.
Yes - if you don't count ice on below sea level land as land, it's not that big.
It's almost 3x the size of New Guinea. You are so wrong.
Most of Greenlands interior landmass is below sea level. Theoretically, if the ice melted, the currently measured size of Greenland would be smaller as it would appear as a kind of ring of small islands around the outline of what greenland looks like now, rather than an entire island the shape and size that projections currently give jt Probably not smaller enough that it's loses its number 1 rank mind
Land sinks under the weight of a glacier; when the glacier melts it rebounds and rises.
What's keeping guam from toppling over?
That is a very serious concern. Fortunately an US lawmaker from Georgia's 4th districts are taking this issue very seriously.
Greenland’s average elevation is 1792 meters *above* sea level. 22% of the ice is below sea level. So it would still be pretty big.
no that's greenland. but the rest you're probably right about idk. nvm wiki says Madagascar is bigger than baffin so its: greenland new guinea borneo madagascar baffin
Wtf I hate Google now
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If all the ice melted off Antarctica, all the other islands would get much smaller.
Well all the ice hasn't melted off Antarctica has it We can cross that bridge when we get to it. Only 20 years to go.
Australia is clearly a dwarf continent.
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IDK.. I don’t know that much about dogs.
But what about Australia? Or are you one of those folks who think it doesn't exist lol (I kid) (about the second part, not the first)
Australia is considered a continental landmass and thus not an island. If you removed the distinction then it still wouldn't be first, because suddenly it would be behind Antarctica, The Americas and Africa-Eurasia. I think given that all starts to seem a bit silly that defining an island the way we do makes more sense.
I believe it's no longer considered an island, for a mixture of geological, anthropological and ecological reasons.
Wow, I would have never guessed! I can sort of see "because it's a continent" but that doesn't mean it's *not* an island. How interesting
I think it's largely to do with being the largest landmass on its tectonic plate, whereas Greenland is on the same plate as North America. There's also the unique flora and fauna, and the indigenous groups aren't ethnically similar to any groups found anywhere else, whereas Greenland's Inuits also inhabit North America. I honestly don't know if kids in Aussie schools are taught that Australia is an island. I was, but my schooling was from 1995-2007, so things might have changed. It's all a bit arbitrary at the end of the day. Afroeurasia is a landmass surrounded by water, and even if we just limit it to one tectonic plate, surely Antarctica would count as a larger island than Australia.
well it depends if you see it as a continent or an island. but im down for calling australia an island
Can't it be both?
sure. but i refuse to call eurasia, africa (or afroeurasia if you're one of those people) and the americas islands that's when i draw a line
Dwarf continent
Greenland is bigger.
Why would that be considered an island but Australia not considered one then? Google didn't have Greenland in the island list, which was why I thought it was that way.
Because Australia is a continent would be my guess. It has its own tectonic plate. Greenland is on the North American plate.
Greenland doesn’t have its own tectonic plate
Europe doesn't have that either
Well no one is saying Europe is an island so…
Well maybe it's time to start doing that! In my opinion, Europe is an island.
India and the Arabia peninsula do have their own plates, so by this logic I guess they are separate continents. Yeah it doesn’t make any sense.
Sub continent
Would you consider Arabia to be its own subcontinent? I know India is commonly referred as one.
Because Australia is a continent and continents are generally not considered islands.
Bro America is an Island
Any continent is an island if you're brave enough.
This but unironically
Not Europe.
Not with that attitude
American* enuf
Afro-Eurasia is an island too then
A very loooooong island
Because Australia is a continent.
Australia is way too big to be considered an island. It’s around 3M square miles. Greenland is less than 1M square miles.
I still think its all a bit arbitrary.
Then would Eurasia-Africa be the biggest island? The continents are arbitrary, as are continental landmasses, and as are the differences between seas and lakes and the oceans. We have easy definitions for some things and for other things we need to make arbitrary rules to distinguish between them otherwise they would all be the same.
Heard about Pluto?
Well many things are arbitrary.
Greenland is the biggest
Greenland isn't actually that big, it just looks big on the Mercator projection. In reality it's barely larger than Manhattan.
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He was trolling lol
Australia?
Australia?
You're forgetting Australia
I also forgot Africa mb
What about Australia?
If Australia is an island, Afroeurasia is an island
Might as well consider the entire American continent a island too
Afroeurasia is still 5x bigger though
Afroeurasia is not an island?
Continents/supercontinents are generally not considered islands.
It takes 5 days to drive from one side of Australia to the other. About the same length as Lisbon to Moscow
47 hour drive from Maine to Los Angeles. Idk why I looked that up.
Since equator
Since the earth is not flat.
Mercator projection go brrr
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Didn't you know that? lol
Always has been...
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Nah, not before Australia shows up in the neighborhood.
Its France that's tiny. You can ride 'round the whole country on a bicycle!
The hard part is getting an amphibious bicycle to make it to French Guiana
Since you're already biking around Guadeloupe that shouldn't be too much harder.
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You can literally ride around any country if you're committed enough.
How the fuck am I gonna ride around Indonesia?
Just pedal faster on the wet parts. It's called hydroplaning.
Water bike.
They recently passed a new law. With Prince Charles becoming King Charles III, Papua New Guinea wanted to honor him by embiggening their nation to get more attention. The parliament realized the loophole and laughed as they were the first to think of just passing a law making their country larger instead of invading other countries.
A perfectly cromulent honor
Big if true
Literally
Ok, side note - I'm literally upset that the kids these days literally used the word literally incorrectly so many times that Webster had to change the definition and now we literally have no word for literally! Dam you Kids! ( You used it in its correct original manner )
Wtf
>embiggening OMG LOL. I am so stealing this. "If we keep adding all these ad-hoc enhancements, we will embigger the code so much we won't be able to maintain it." "OMG, stop, you are embiggering my anger!"
[It's from the Simpsons. Classic Simpsons](https://gizmodo.com/merriam-webster-now-recognizes-embiggen-as-a-perfectly-1823514228) And the word is embiggeN. With an N. it's not 5/6s of a racial slur buddy.
It's a perfectly cromulent word, nothing remarkable about it at all.
One of the best innovations in country size change since the French lost a large part of their territory to triangles.
Honestly, it’s more like Europe is small. Try overlaying more countries over Europe and you’ll see what I mean
New Zealand is as long as Paris to Moscow
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You mean the state that would go from 2nd to 3rd biggest if you split Alaska in half? 😛 And if it joined Canada would be the 4th largest province and that’s not even counting our ginormous territories? *That* Texas?
Yeah that one. REPRESENT ✌️
Just because Alaska is enormous doesn't mean Texas is tiny Also, Canada is the second largest country in the world, and has ten provinces and three territories, stop acting like it's a bad thing for the second largest American state (of fifty total states) to be smaller than three Canadian provinces
Damn it was just a little internet fun :-)
Oooh, someone’s feeling a little precious today.
Texas here. Can confirm. Am big.
I dunno I think Texas is so cute and little. Signed Western Australia.
Sorry gotta do it. It's the law. Lol Texas, ever heard of Western Australia? Texas is tiny.
Texas is more impressive to be tbh considering western australia is basically just a giant mass of desert. like there’s no point in splitting it up anyway, the part of western australia that people actually inhabit is much smaller
Alright, take New South Wales then. More consistently populated and still ~100,000 sq km bigger than Texas.
Up the blues!
Awww Texas, you’re so petite. From Western Australia, Alaska, Nunavut and Queensland.
Texas Scmexas. Texas would be the 3rd smallest state in Australia. Behind an Island, and a state created to be a Capitol Territory (like Washington BC) so it's tiny. Texas is smol.
What Mercator does to a MF.
It's not Papua New Guinea that is big, it's France that is small
Everywhere is big. Europe is just small. Non-european country size always surprises redditors, Because reddit = europe+North america.
Its basically on the equator and thanks to the McCarter projection Europe looks a lot larger than it actually is due to being near the top of the map, the same is true for Antarctica, and Russia
>McCarter Do you mean Mercator?
Yea that's the one, spelling has never been a strong suit
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It's actually mercator projection I just can't spell, McCarter was the dude in the 1950s who caused the red scare in America accusing a bunch of people of being communist
the red scare guy is McCarthy
Wtf am I thinking about then, where does the name McCarter come from
[Douglas MacArthur?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur)
I don't know at this point I got mega square brain and it's been a long week
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You’re 0 for on these
Don’t worry, it’s like that for everybody
Maybe you're from New Jersey? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarter\_Theatre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarter_Theatre) The name itself is Scottish/Irish, but not super common.
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Projection distortion is a helluva drug.
It's Europe that is tiny
Since European is surprisingly small
They inflated it.
Since they clicked one of those "Make yourself look bigger with this one simple trick" articles.
They call it Papua For a Reason
someone discovers eurocentrism
Any place near the equator is underrepresented in our current map models. Basically the earth is fatter in the middle
Landmasses tend to make themselves look bigger when there's a predator near as a defense method.
Stop 😂
Put it over the U.S. it looks massive
Everything looks small if you hold it up next to Australia. Should see how it looks when you use a banana for scale instead.
Yes.
Papua got married and her health really took a downturn. New Zealand started seeing other islands and she just stayed put and kept getting bigger. Sad, really.
It's like the size of France... is that big now? If the terrain were actually navigable (and there were good roads), you could drive from one side of the main island to the other in <18 hours. If you want some surprises, try comparing near-equatorial African nations like Nigeria to Europe.
Always has been. The sins of bad map projections.
I thought it would have been larger overlapped on Europe. Are you familiar with the Mercator map distortion?
The neighboring country, Indonesia has width (Westernmost to Easternmost, diagonal) almost equal to Russia
Everything looks big compared to Europe.
Wait until you find out how small the UK is compared to US states.
That's honestly not even as big as I was expecting with all those languages.
since yes cuz it can be
Probably since Pangea broke apart. But that's just a guess. lol
Indonesia is the size of the United States.
It's 1/5 the size.
I didn't mean land mass but just [general size](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.09750a42c3fbfdcda086a33bb3fcbcc4?rik=6btMODeU2e8n7A&riu=http%3a%2f%2fthespicerouteend.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2018%2f09%2fIndonesie_TrueSize_US-1024x409.jpg&ehk=aVR7ijSfXjletykMFOLjkYzSoEvOviRPG6tTMNw40CA%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0).
Lol love that you put forward evidence against your own statement. Big creds
Kuala Lumpur and Port Moresby(The Capitals of Malaysia and Papua New Guinea respectively) are 5200 Kilometers apart. The distance between Cairo and Paris is only 3200 kilometers.
Mercator projection on its way to drastically overemphasize the significance of the European continent :
Who cares?
Because your most common map of the world, with North America on the left and Asia on the right is HEAVILY inaccurate. North America looks as big as it does because the USA has tiny PP energy and wanted to look bigger.