• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    24 hours ago

    To be fair even on a globe Greenland is still massive. Just not quite as bad on Mercator.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah but on mercator it looks bigger than Africa. Africa is actually really huge

      Edit: wording.

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      24 hours ago

      It is also mostly ice. The entirety of the central Greenland is covered by 1.6km to 3.7km thick ice.

      Settlements are around the coast, as Greenland has about 100km roads in total, no railroads and no inland water.

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        19 hours ago

        Republicans hate railroads, so that’s actually a plus for them.