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Most residents of Greenland are Inuit. [23] The population is concentrated mainly on the southwest coast, strongly influenced by climatic and geographical factors, and the rest of the island is sparsely populated. With a population of 56,583 (2022), [24] Greenland is the least densely populated region in the world. [25]
The population of Greenland consists of Greenlandic Inuit (including mixed-race people), Danish Greenlanders and other Europeans and North Americans. The Inuit population makes up approximately 85–90% of the total (2009 est.). 6,792 people from Denmark live in Greenland, which is 12% of its total population.
Greenlandic people in Denmark (Danish: Grønlændere i Danmark; also known as Greenlandic Danes) are residents of Denmark with Greenlandic or Greenlandic Inuit heritage. According to StatBank Greenland, as of 2020, there were 16,780 people born in Greenland living in Denmark, a figure representing almost one third of the population of Greenland.
Denmark contributes two-thirds of Greenland's budget revenue, the rest coming mainly from fishing. ... Population: 57,000. Languages: Greenlandic, also Danish and English. Life expectancy: 71 ...
The city boomed during the 1950s when Denmark began to modernize Greenland. As in Greenland as a whole, Nuuk is populated today by both Inuit and Danes. Over a third of Greenland's total population lives in the Nuuk Greater Metropolitan area. [17] A 2016 article in The Guardian examining indigenous influences on cities worldwide [18] suggested that
But Greenland’s population of roughly 56,000 is a small fraction of the Scandinavian country. For context, the least-populated U.S. state, Wyoming, had around 577,000 people at the time of the ...
Denmark [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, [N 7] also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. [11]
People of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and citizens of the European Union. Approximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57,695 is Greenlandic Inuit, or 51,349 people as of 2012. [9] Ethnographically, they consist of three major groups: the Kalaallit of west Greenland, who speak Kalaallisut