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What is the largest island in the world?

Retry Correct Incorrect Greenland isn’t quite as big as it looks on most maps, thanks to the warping effect of the Mercator projection. But it’s still plenty big, with an area of 822,381 square miles. This is more than twice as big as the second-place island, New Guinea.

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What is the largest island in the world?

• Greenland
• Baffin Island
• Madagascar
• Manhattan Island