If the USA took Canada and Greenland would it be bigger than Russia
“Yes, a hypothetical United States that incorporated Canada and Greenland would have a larger land area than Russia.
Current Land Areas (in square kilometers)
Reliable sources like the CIA World Factbook, UN Statistics, and Wikipedia provide these approximate figures for total area (including inland waters):
• Russia: ~17,098,000 km² (largest country in the world)
• United States: ~9,827,000 km²
• Canada: ~9,985,000 km²
• Greenland: ~2,166,000 km² (mostly ice-covered, but counted as land area)
Hypothetical Combined Area
Adding them together (with minor adjustments for negligible overlaps):
• USA + Canada + Greenland ≈ 9,827,000 + 9,985,000 + 2,166,000 = 21,978,000 km²
This is about 22–29% larger than Russia’s ~17.1 million km², making the combined entity the world’s largest by a significant margin.
For context: Even just USA + Canada (~19.8 million km²) would already exceed Russia by around 14–16%. Adding Greenland pushes it further ahead.
These figures use total area (standard for country comparisons), but the result holds even if focusing strictly on land excluding major inland waters—Russia remains the benchmark as the current largest”
