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Kalaallit Nunaat Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
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.gl .gl is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for Greenland. The domain is available for Internet services worldwide and registrations are handled by ICANN-accredited domain name registrars. The doma ...
Internet country code top-level domain for Greenland


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Administrative divisions of Greenland Greenland is divided into five municipalities Avannaata, Kujalleq, Qeqertalik, Qeqqata, and SermersooqStatistics Greenland''Greenland in Figures, 2014''/ref> as well as the large Northeast Greenland National Park which is unincorporated. The ...
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Airports in Greenland This is a list of airports in Greenland, grouped by type and sorted by location. Air travel is extremely important in Greenland, since there are generally no roads between settlements. Arctic Umiaq Line provides passenger and freight services by s ...
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Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...
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North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
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North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
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geographically Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...
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North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
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Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
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Baffin Bay Baffin Bay ( Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; kl, Avannaata Imaa; french: Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arct ...
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Kane Basin Kane Basin ( da, Kane Bassin; french: Bassin (de) Kane) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Smith Sound to Kennedy Channel and forms part of Nares Strait. It is approximatel ...
****** Labrador Sea ***** North Atlantic Ocean ****** Denmark Strait ******
Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...
* Arctic and North Temperate Zone * Arctic Ocean * Atlantic Ocean * Atlas of Greenland ''(Kalaallit Nunaat)'' *
Augusta Salling Augusta Salling (born 1954) is a former finance minister of Greenland. She began as a teacher. Her political roles before finance minister included being a member of a Parliament and mayor of Qeqertarsuaq Qeqertarsuaq () is a port and town in ...


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Baffin Bay Baffin Bay ( Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; kl, Avannaata Imaa; french: Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arct ...
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Birds of Greenland Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight s ...


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* Capital of Greenland: Nuuk *Categories: ** :Greenland *** :Buildings and structures in Greenland *** :Communications in Greenland *** :Economy of Greenland *** :Education in Greenland *** *** :Environment of Greenland *** :Geography of Greenland *** :Government of Greenland *** :Greenland stubs *** :Greenlandic culture *** :Greenlandic people *** :Greenland-related lists *** :History of Greenland *** :Military of Greenland *** :Municipalities of Greenland *** :Politics of Greenland *** :Society of Greenland *** :Sport in Greenland *** :Transport in Greenland ** commons:Greenland * Cities in Greenland *
Climate of Greenland Greenland's climate is a tundra climate (Köppen ET) on and near the coasts and an ice cap climate (Köppen EF) in inland areas. It typically has short, cool summers and long, moderately cold winters. Due to Gulf Stream influences, Greenland' ...
* Coat of arms of Greenland * Communications in Greenland * Constitution of Greenland * Cuisine of Greenland *
Culture of Greenland The culture of Greenland has much in common with Greenlandic Inuit tradition, as the majority of people are descended from Inuit. Many people still go ice fishing and there are annual dog-sled races in which everyone with a team participates. Howe ...


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* Danish colonization of the Americas * Davis Strait * Demographics of Greenland * Denmark * Denmark Strait


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Economy of Greenland The economy of Greenland is characterized as small, mixed and vulnerable. Greenland's economy consists of a large public sector and comprehensive foreign trade. This has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth, considerable inflatio ...
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Education in Greenland See also Education in Denmark The levels of education in Greenland are primary, secondary and higher education. A 10-year primary education is compulsory for all children aged between 6 and 16. Education in Greenland is controlled by the Greenlandi ...
* Elections in Greenland *
Extreme points of Greenland Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller i ...


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Football in Greenland Association football is the most popular and the national sport of Greenland. It was brought to Greenland by Danish settlers. Because of the climatic conditions, Greenland is unable to support any grass pitches so games are played on artificial ...
* Foreign relations of Greenland


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* Geography of Greenland * Geology of Greenland * Glaciers of Greenland * Government of Greenland *
Governors of Greenland A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...
* Greenland ''(
Kalaallit Nunaat Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
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Greenland Plate The Greenland Plate is a supposed tectonic plate bounded to the west by Nares Strait, a probable transform fault; on the southwest by the Ungava transform underlying Davis Strait; on the southeast by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; and the northeast by th ...
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Greenland Sea The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as p ...
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Greenlander This is a demography of the population of Greenland including population density, ethnicity, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Populations the resident population of Greenland was estimated at 56,562, a ...
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Greenlandic (disambiguation) * Something of, from, or related to Greenland, a country * List of people from Greenland *Greenlandic Inuit are people identified with the country of Greenland, or of Greenlandic descent: see Demographics of Greenland ** List of Greenlandic Inuit ...
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Greenlandic language Greenlandic ( kl, kalaallisut, link=no ; da, grønlandsk ) is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about 56,000 speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut. It is the mos ...
* Gunnbjørn Fjeld – Highest point in Greenland and the entire Arctic


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* Health care in Greenland * Highest major mountain peaks of Greenland * History of Greenland


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* Inspectors of Greenland * International Organization for Standardization ( ISO) ** ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Greenland: GL ** ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Greenland: GRL ** ISO 3166-2:GL region codes for Greenland * Internet in Greenland * Islands of Greenland


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Kalaallisut Kalaallisut may refer to: * Greenlandic language * West Greenlandic West Greenlandic ( da, vestgrønlandsk), also known as Kalaallisut, is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of ...
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Kalaallit Nunaat Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
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Kane Basin (waterway) Kane Basin ( da, Kane Bassin; french: Bassin (de) Kane) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Smith Sound to Kennedy Channel and forms part of Nares Strait. It is approximately ...
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Kingdom of Denmark The Danish Realm ( da, Danmarks Rige; fo, Danmarkar Ríki; kl, Danmarkip Naalagaaffik), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (; ; ), is a sovereign state located in Northern Europe and Northern North America. It consists of Denmark, metropolitan ...
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Languages of Greenland The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic. The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85-90% of the total population), divided in three main dialects, Kalaallisut (West-Greenlandic, 44,000 speakers and the dialect that ...
* Law enforcement in Greenland * LGBT rights in Greenland * Lists related to Greenland: ** List of airports in Greenland **
List of birds of Greenland This is a list of the bird species recorded in Greenland. The avifauna of Greenland include a total of 249 species as of July 2022 according to ''Bird Checklists of the World''. Of them, 176 are rare or accidental. One species is extinct, anothe ...
** List of cities in Greenland **
List of countries by GDP (nominal) Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or go ...
** List of Governors of Greenland **
List of Greenland-related topics The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Greenland: Greenland – autonomous Nordic nation that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland comprises the Island of Greenland and adja ...
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List of Inspectors of Greenland __NOTOC__ Royal Inspector was the highest ranking colonial officer in Danish Greenland 1782–1924. They were agents of the Royal Greenland Trading Department established by its Instruction of 1782 and reported to the Board of Managers of the comp ...
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List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name. Islands and archipelagoes * Aaluik * Aasiaat Archipelago * Achton Friis Islands * A ...
** List of mountains in Greenland **
List of national parks of Greenland Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...
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List of political parties in Greenland This is a list of political parties in Greenland, as of 20 April 2021. Greenland has a multi-party system. Active parties Dissolved parties * Sukaq * Labour Party * Women's Party * Polar Party * Centre Party (Greenland) * Roots Party * Ass ...
** List of postal codes in Greenland ** List of prime ministers of Greenland **
List of rivers of Greenland This is a list of rivers of Greenland. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Most rivers in Greenland are formed from melt ...
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List of the highest major mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of Summit, major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence ...
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List of the most isolated major mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence. All ...
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List of the most prominent mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence. All ...
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List of towns in Greenland This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2021. The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,279 inhabitants. In Greenland, two kinds of settled ...
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List of ultra prominent peaks of Greenland The following sortable table comprises the 38 ultra-prominent summits of the nation of Greenland ( Kalaallit Nunaat). Each of these peaks has at least of topographic prominence.This article defines a significant summit as a summit with at l ...
** List of World Heritage Sites in Greenland **
Lists of mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of Summit, major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence ...
** Topic outline of Greenland


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Military of Greenland The defence of Greenland is the responsibility of the Kingdom of Denmark. The government of Greenland does not have control of Greenland's military or foreign affairs. The most important part of Greenland's defensive territory remains the 12 mar ...
* Mountain peaks of Greenland **
List of the highest major mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of Summit, major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence ...
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List of the most isolated major mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence. All ...
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List of the most prominent mountain peaks of Greenland This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence. All ...
* Municipalities of Greenland *
Music of Greenland The music of Greenland is a mixture of two primary strands, Inuit music, Inuit and Denmark, Danish, mixed with influences from the United States and United Kingdom. Greenland's musical character has been described as "definitely a rock country, bo ...


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* National parks of Greenland *
North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
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Northern Hemisphere The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's Nort ...
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Politics of Greenland The politics of Greenland, an autonomous country ( kl, nuna, da, land) within the Kingdom of Denmark, function in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the prime minister is the head of government, and of ...
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List of political parties in Greenland This is a list of political parties in Greenland, as of 20 April 2021. Greenland has a multi-party system. Active parties Dissolved parties * Sukaq * Labour Party * Women's Party * Polar Party * Centre Party (Greenland) * Roots Party * Ass ...
* Postal codes of Greenland * Prime Minister of Greenland ** List of Prime Ministers of Greenland


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Rivers of Greenland A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...


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Tourism in Greenland Tourism in Greenland is a relatively young business area of the country. Since the foundation of the national tourist council, Greenland Tourism, in 1992, the Home Rule Government (renamed 'Self Rule Government' in 2009) has been working actively ...
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Transportation in Greenland The transportation system in Greenland is very unusual in that Greenland has no railways, no inland waterways, and virtually no roads between towns. Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer an ...


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University of Greenland The University of Greenland ( kl, Ilisimatusarfik Kalaallit Nunaat; da, Grønlands Universitet) is Greenland's only university. It is in the capital city of Nuuk. Most courses are taught in Danish, a few in Greenlandic and classes by exchange le ...


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World Heritage Sites in Greenland In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...


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Lists of country-related topics Each entry below presents a list of topics about a specific nation or state (country), followed by a link to the main article for that country. ''Entries for nations are in bold type, while those for subnational entities are in normal (unbolded) ty ...
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Topic outline of geography The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography: Geography – study of earth and its people. Nature of geography Geography as * an academic discipline – a body of knowledge given to − o ...
* Topic outline of Greenland * Topic outline of North America


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* {{Index footer Greenland