Greenland vs Russia

Russia is 7.9 times larger than Greenland — 17,098,242 against 2,166,086 km². Russia is 2525 times more populous than Greenland — 143,513,328 against 56,831 people.

Side by side

Population density

Russia is 320 times more densely populated than Greenland — 8 against 0 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• Different currencies: the krone and the Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

Greenland

The largest island in the world, and about eighty percent of it is under an ice sheet up to 3 km thick — enough water to raise global sea level roughly 7 m if it all melted. There are no roads between towns; travel is by boat, plane or snow. Its population of under 60,000 lives almost entirely on the ice-free coastal fringe.

Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.