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Greenland also contains the world's largest national park; it is the largest constituent country by area in the world and is the fourth largest country subdivision in the world, after Sakha Republic in Russia, Australia's state of Western Australia, and Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the largest in North America.
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
Greenland Native name: Grønland Kalaallit Nunaat Outline map of Greenland with ice sheet depths. (Much of the area in green has permanent snow cover, but less than 10m (33ft) thick.) Geography Location Between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean Coordinates 64°10′N 51°43′W / 64.167°N 51.717°W / 64.167; -51.717 Area 2,166,086 km 2 (836,330 sq mi) Area rank 1st ...
The protected areas make up 65% of the archipelago. [132] Svalbard is on Norway's tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [186] The total solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 included only Svalbard and the Faroe Islands in the band of totality. [187]
Erik the Red's Land, northeast coast of Greenland and Fridtjof Nansen Land, southeast coast of Greenland, claimed and annexed from 1931 until awarded to Denmark by a court decision in 1933. [12] Inari and Petsamo, now part of Finland and Russia, claimed from Finland from about 1942 to 1945 by the Quisling regime during the Nazi occupation of ...
Rest of Greenland – UTC-02; Extreme points of Greenland. High: Gunnbjørn Fjeld 3,700 m (12,139 ft) – highest point in the Arctic; Low: Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: Canada 1,280 m (4,200 feet) Coastline: 44,087 km; Population of Greenland: 56,344; Area of Greenland: 2,166,086 km 2; Atlas of Greenland
Greenland. 5 municipalities; 1 unincorporated national park; Finland ... Norway proper 15 counties (Norwegian: fylker) [5] 356 municipalities (Norwegian: kommuner) [6]
The first of these new areas came into existence on 1 January 2018, when Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag merged to form Trøndelag. According to most definitions, the counties of Norway are divided into the following regions (these groupings are approximate): Northern Norway (Nord-Norge / Nord-Noreg) Troms; Finnmark; Nordland