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Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American island autonomous territory [14] of the Kingdom of Denmark. [15]
Greenland is the world's largest island. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Greenland is a self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark . This large Arctic island is near two countries, Iceland to the east and Canada to the west.
Greenland is a 2020 American apocalyptic survival disaster thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling. The film stars Gerard Butler (who also produced), Morena Baccarin , Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn , David Denman , and Hope Davis , and follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet ...
Greenland has 17 towns – settlements with more than 500 inhabitants. Nuuk is the largest town – and the capital – with roughly one third of the country's urban population. Sisimiut with approximately 5,500 inhabitants is the second largest town, while Ilulissat is number three with around 5,000 inhabitants.
Greenland, the world’s largest island, lying in the North Atlantic Ocean. Greenland is noted for its vast tundra and immense glaciers. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but the island’s home-rule government is responsible for most domestic affairs.
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat; Danish: Grønland) is the world's largest non-continental island, in the Arctic far north-east of North America. For thousands of years this icy landmass has been inhabited by Arctic peoples.
Greenland is the world's largest island and an autonomous Danish dependent territory with self-government and its own parliament.
The Inuit are descended from the Thule people, who settled Greenland in between AD 1200 and 1400. As 84 percent of Greenland's land mass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Inuit people live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s, additional Canadian Inuit joined the Polar Inuit communities.
Greenland - Viking, Inuit, Colonization: The Inuit are believed to have crossed to northwest Greenland from North America, using the islands of the Canadian Arctic as stepping-stones, in a series of migrations that stretched from at least 2500 bce to the early 2nd millennium ce.
A detailed overview of Greenland's geography, society, government, economy, and history provided by the World Factbook.