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clear:right; border: 2px solid silver; margin: 0 0 .5em .5em; width: 200px;"> <div style="background-color: #e7ece6; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; padding: .3em;"><b>Greenland</b> <b></b></div> <center><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Greenland.svg" class="image"><img alt="Flag of Greenland.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_Greenland.svg/195px-Flag_of_Greenland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="195" height="130" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_Greenland.svg/293px-Flag_of_Greenland.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_Greenland.svg/390px-Flag_of_Greenland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></center> <table style="width: 200px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e8e7f2;"><b>Demographics</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by population" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by population">Population</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>56,483 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by GDP (nominal)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by GDP (nominal)">GDP (million)</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>2,220 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">GDP p/cap.</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>39,569.11 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by life expectancy" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by life expectancy">Life expectancy</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>71.83 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:List of countries by Human Development Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of countries by Human Development Index">Development Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>.786 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width: 200px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e8e7f2;"><b>Government</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:Democracy Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Democracy Index">Democracy Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>N/A </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:Corruption Perceptions Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Corruption Perceptions Index">Corruption Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>N/A </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width: 200px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #e8e7f2;"><b>More</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index" class="extiw" title="wp:Education Index" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Education Index">Education Index</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>N/A </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country" class="extiw" title="wp:Importance of religion by country" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Importance of religion by country">Religiosity</span></a>:<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </td> <td>N/A </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg/250px-Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg/330px-Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg/500px-Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="958" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Greenland_42.74746W_71.57394N.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Satellite image of Greenland.</div></div></div> <p><b>Greenland</b> is geographically part of <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>, but is often more associated with <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, specifically <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a> or just the Nordic countries in general, and is a quasi-independent territory of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[note 1]</a></sup> </p><p>It mostly has Inuits and polar bears, and a lot of ice (<a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">not for long</a>!). No <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">penguins</a>, though, but it used to have the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/great_auk" class="extiw" title="wp:great auk" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: great auk">great auk</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[note 2]</a></sup> </p><p>If you believe <i>Princess Bride</i>, it's a very bad place to be unemployed. Greenland is probably the only place in the world where you can walk into a Chinese restaurant and order whale meat. It's also a real fucker on any of the numerous plague simulator games. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Name"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Name</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Geopolitics"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Geopolitics</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#International_statistics"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">International statistics</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Name">Name</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Greenland has a lot of ice and is not particularly green, while <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> does not have as much ice. In defense, Iceland isn't that green either. Nobody is quite sure how it got its name, although this may have something to do with Viking raiders who were all stoned out of their minds on cheap <a href="/wiki/Alcohol" title="Alcohol">mead</a> and hallucinogenic <a href="/wiki/Psilocybin" title="Psilocybin">mushrooms</a> who thought all that snow and ice glowed a really trippy green under the dancing northern lights. Far out, man. </p><p>An alternate explanation is that when Erik the Red<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[note 3]</a></sup> made landfall in Greenland, he was desperate for people to settle down there, and so gave it its inviting name, thereby launching history's first real estate scam. Although that region was warmer then than it is now, life still proved to be harsh, keeping cattle and sheep penned 5 months of the year. </p><p>However, this didn't stop hardcore <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_denial" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change denial">climate change denialists</a> from claiming the word 'green' in Greenland proves climate science is a hoax. One wonders what does the country Turkey prove? The unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner table guest came from there? Moral of the story? Denialists clutch at straws. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a> left, though, as there wasn't much there to loot and pillage, so they moved on to <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> and started a football team. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Geopolitics">Geopolitics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geopolitics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Officially it is part of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, who granted it "home rule" in 1979. Unofficially, Greenland is rumored to still be teeming with big burly Vikings who plan on using it as a base to launch raids on <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="New York">New York</a>, and other lesser countries. </p><p>Because of its location near the North Pole, it is of some strategic importance, particularly for Americans worried about an attack over the Arctic from <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> has a major facility at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Air_Base" class="extiw" title="wp:Thule Air Base" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Thule Air Base">Thule Air Base</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> which includes a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System to track incoming <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons">nukes</a>. Also, in 2019 <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> attempted to buy all of Greenland from the Danish government for its military value or because it was a slow news day or golf or something.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>Today, Greenland (or Kalaalit Nunaat as the locals call it) is in the process of attaining independence from Denmark; a 2008 referendum took control of Greenland's police, coast guard, and courts away from Denmark and placed them in the hands of the Greenlandic people. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="International_statistics">International statistics</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: International statistics">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="legend"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block; width:1em; height:1em; margin:1px 0; border:1px solid black; background-color: #B9B9B9; color:black; font-size:100%; text-align:center;"> </span> Data unavailable</div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alaska" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nunavut" class="mw-redirect" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svalbard" class="mw-redirect" title="Svalbard">Svalbard</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Try to wrap your head around its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland-European_Union_relations" class="extiw" title="wp:Greenland-European Union relations" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Greenland-European Union relations">relations with the European Union</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">A good book to read for further information about the culture of the Inuits, Greenlandic history, and harrowing tales of survival would be Peter Freuchen's <i>Book of the Eskimos</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Erik, Eiríkr in Old Icelandic, had been banished from <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> for killing, emigrated to Iceland and was banned again for killing. Then he went to Greenland. His daughter, Freydís, while on a tour of some part of North America, organized the slaughter of half the expedition, killing the women herself, as her men were too squeamish. There must have been some bad genes there.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greenland&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin Pengelly, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/trump-considering-buying-greenland">Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy Greenland</a>", <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, August 18, 2019</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div role="navigation" 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