Greenland
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meanin "Laund o the Greenlanders"; Dens: Grønland) is an autonomous kintra athin the Kinrick o Denmark locatit atween the Airctic an Atlantic Oceans, east o the Canadian Airctic Archipelago. Tho physiographical an ethnically an Airctic island kintra an geographically a pairt o the continent o North Americae, politically an historically Greenland is associatit wi Europe, in parteecular Iceland, Norawa, an Denmark. In 1979, Denmark grantit hame rule tae Greenland, wi a relationship describit bi the Rigsfællesskabet, an in 2008 Greenland votit tae acome a separate kintra athin the Kinrick o Denmark, effective Juin 2009. Greenland is, bi scowth, the warld's lairgest island that is no a continent in its ain richt.
Greenland | |
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Location of Greenland | |
Caipital and largest city | Nuuk 64°10′N 51°44′W / 64.167°N 51.733°W |
Offeecial leids | Greenlandic[a] |
Ither leids | Dens[a] |
Ethnic groups |
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Releegion | Kirk o Denmark |
Demonym(s) |
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Sovereign state | Kinrick o Denmark |
Govrenment | Devolved govrenment within pairlamentar constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Frederick X |
Julie Præst Wilche | |
• Premier | Múte Bourup Egede |
Mimi Karlsen | |
Legislatur | Inatsisartut |
Autonomy within the Kinrick o Denmark | |
11th century | |
1262 | |
• Contact re-established (Dano-Norse colonies) | 1721 |
14 Januar 1814 | |
• Amt status | 5 Juin 1953 |
• Hame rule | 1 Mey 1979 |
• Further autonomy and self rule | 21 June 2009[3][4] |
Aurie | |
• Total | 2,166,086 km2 (836,330 sq mi) |
• Water (%) | 83.1[d] |
Population | |
• Estimate | 56,483 (14 September 2016)[5] |
• Density | 0.028/km2 (0.1/sq mi) (last) |
GDP (PPP) | 2011 estimate |
• Total | 11.6 billion kr.($1.8 billion)[6] (n/a) |
• Per capita | $37,000 (n/a) |
HDI (2010) | 0.786[7] heich · 61st |
Currency | Dens krone (DKK) |
Time zone | UTC+0 to −4 |
Date format | dd-mm-yyyy |
Drivin side | richt |
Cawin code | +299 |
ISO 3166 code | GL |
Internet TLD | .gl |
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Notes
eedit- ↑ Nuna asiilasooq haes equal status as a naitional anthem but is generally uised anly on the sel-govrenment o Greenland.[1]
References
eedit- ↑ "Not one but two national anthems". Govrenment o Greenland. Retrieved 7 October 2003.
- ↑ "Greenland". CIA World Factbook. Archived frae the original on 9 Mey 2020. Retrieved 9 Februar 2018.
- ↑ a b (in Dens) TV 2 Nyhederne – "Grønland går over til selvstyre" Archived 2023-08-09 at the Wayback Machine TV 2 Nyhederne (TV 2 News) – Ved overgangen til selvstyre, er grønlandsk nu det officielle sprog. Retrieved 22 Januar 2012.
- ↑ "Self-rule introduced in Greenland". BBC News. 21 Juin 2009. Retrieved 4 Mey 2010.
- ↑ "Grønlands Statistik". stat.gl.
- ↑ Greenland in Figures 2013 (PDF). Statistics Greenland. ISBN 978-87-986787-7-9. ISSN 1602-5709. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ↑ Avakov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich (2012). Quality of Life, Balance of Powers, and Nuclear Weapons (2012): A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens. Algora Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-87586-892-9.
- ↑ (in Dens) Law of Greenlandic Selfrule (see chaipter 7)
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