---
title: "Greenland vs Russia — area, population, currency"
description: "Greenland is 2,166,086 km² with 56,831 people; Russia is 17,098,242 km² with 143,513,328. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/greenland-vs-russia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greenland vs Russia

**Greenland vs Russia: Russia is larger; Russia has more people**

2,166,086 km² vs 17,098,242 km² · 56,831 vs 143,513,328

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

|  | Greenland | Russia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Nuuk | Moscow |
| Area | 2,166,086 km² | 17,098,242 km² |
| Population | 56,831 (2025) | 143,513,328 (2025) |
| Density | 0.0 /km² | 8.4 /km² |
| Currency | krone (DKK) | Russian ruble (RUB) |
| Official languages | Greenlandic | Russian |
| Time zones | UTC-04:00, UTC-02:00, UTC+00:00 | UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00 |
| Calling code | +299 | +7 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | GL / GRL | RU / RUS |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Greenland bigger than Russia?

Russia is larger — 17,098,242 km² against 2,166,086 km².

### Which has more people, Greenland or Russia?

Russia, with 143,513,328 against 56,831.

### What is the time difference between Greenland and Russia?

Greenland is UTC-04:00, UTC-02:00, UTC+00:00 and Russia is UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00, UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00, UTC+10:00, UTC+11:00, UTC+12:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Greenland](https://atoneplace.net/country/greenland/)
- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
- [India vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-russia/)
- [China vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-russia/)
- [China vs Greenland](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-greenland/)
- [Japan vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-russia/)
- [Canada vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-russia/)
- [Canada vs Greenland](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-greenland/)
- [Australia vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-russia/)
- [Australia vs Greenland](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-greenland/)
- [New Zealand vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/new-zealand-vs-russia/)
- [France vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-russia/)
- [France vs Greenland](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-greenland/)
- [Germany vs Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/germany-vs-russia/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]