1⃣ Greenland is the world’s largest island that’s not a continent. It’s 3x Texas but 80% ice—2.85M sq km of frozen wildness. If that ice melts? Say goodbye to Florida.
2⃣ Greenland is big…but not THAT big. Thanks to the Mercator projection, on a map, it looks like it’s about the size of Africa or 3-4 times the size of Australia when, in fact, it is only one-fourteenth the size of the former and one-quarter the size of the latter.
3⃣ Population: 56,000. More polar bears (2,500) than towns (just 17). You’re more likely to meet a bear than a traffic jam.