Greenland is about 8 times smaller than South America.

South America is approximately 17,840,000 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 12.14% the size of South America.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South America vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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