Greenland Country Info - North America

Description and Basic Information

Greenland with its capital Nuuk is located in North America (Northern North America, island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 2,166,087 square kilometres (slightly more than three times the size of Texas) with 56,375 citizens. Kalaallisut, Danish and English are the languages used by people in Greenland (consider regional differences).

Greenland is the world's largest non-continental island, in the far northeast of North America, largely within the Arctic Circle. If you stay on the typical tourist paths you do not need any permissions, but any expeditions (including any trips to the national park, which by definition are expeditions) need a special permit from the Danish polar centre.

Pictures from Capital (Nuuk)

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About Greenland

The topography features flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast. The average density of population is about 0 per km². The climate in Greenland can be described as arctic to subarctic with cool summers, cold winters. Potential natural disasters are continuous permafrost over northern two-thirds of the island.

To reach someone in Greenland dial +299 prior to a number. There are 22,000 installed telephones. And there are 53,500 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".gl". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 4 regions/states in Greenland we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Greenlandic population grew at a rate of 0.06% (or by 37 citizens). With 464 deaths and 846 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.66%. -345 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Greenland: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.