Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, the world's largest island, lying between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, between latitudes 59 and 83 degrees north. Its capital is Nuuk. Its land area is roughly 2,166,086 square kilometres, the great majority ice-covered, and its 2025 estimated population was 56,831, one of the lowest population densities of any territory on Earth.
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Territory Status Greenland
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It was located in Narsaq in Southern Greenland
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Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe.
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was a land bridge that connected Fennoscandia to northern Greenland.
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Avannacystis is an extinct colonising microorganism from the middle Cambrian of Greenland, found on or within the shells of Tesella.
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"locality": "Greenland", "source": "The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP)"
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Capital: Nuuk
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56,831 (2025 estimate)
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2,166,086 km2 (836,330 sq mi)
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2,166,086
Introduction
Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands.
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lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark
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Northeast Greenland National Park (Wikidata)
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