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Greenland is a country located in North America. Its capital city is Nuuk, with other major cities including Sisimiut and Ilulissat. With a population of approximately 56K, the main languages spoken are Greenlandic, Danish. The country covers an area of 2,166,086 km². The official currency is the krone (kr.). Traffic drives on the right side.
Greenland is the world's largest island that is not a continent — 80% of it is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, which contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 7 metres if it melted.
Nuuk serves as the political, cultural and economic heart of Greenland, positioned in North America. As the seat of government and often the most populous city, it concentrates the country's main institutions, universities and cultural landmarks. Beyond the capital, major cities include Sisimiut, Ilulissat, Qaqortoq — each a hub of regional culture, economy and history. Nuuk, perched on a rocky peninsula where the Nuup Kangerlua fjord meets the Davis Strait, is the world's least-populated capital — a city of around 19,000 surrounded by some of the most extreme wilderness on Earth, its colourful wooden houses a deliberate visual defiance of the grey Arctic sea.
With a population of approximately 56K, Greenland is a vibrant society with a rich mix of traditions and communities. The principal languages spoken are Greenlandic, Danish, which reflect the country's cultural heritage and open doors to a wide international community. Internationally, Greenland is reached via the dialling code +299. Greenlandic Inuit culture survived millennia of Arctic conditions through kayak technology, clothing sewn from seal and caribou hide, and a spiritual relationship with the natural world encoded in the Greenlandic language — Kalaallisut — which expresses concepts of weather, ice, and hunting with a specificity that reflects its environment in ways untranslatable to other tongues.
Greenland spans 2,166,086 km², in the North America subregion of Americas. Geographically centred around 72.0°N, 40.0°W, the country offers a diverse range of landscapes shaped by its location, climate and geology. Road traffic follows the right-hand rule, in line with surrounding Americas convention.
The official currency is the krone (kr.), used for everyday transactions and commerce throughout the country. Greenland's economy is shaped by its geography, natural resources and trade relationships. Business and daily life operate under UTC-04:00, aligning the country with its regional neighbours.
The emblematic dish of Greenland is Suaasat. Kalaallit cuisine is built on the land and sea — mattak (raw or frozen whale skin with blubber), dried reindeer, and suaasat (a soup of seal or whale with rice and onion) have sustained communities through polar winters for centuries, representing a food culture shaped entirely by what the Arctic provides rather than what could be traded or imported.
Dogsled Racing / Football holds a special place in the heart of Greenland's national identity. Dogsled racing remains both a practical transport tradition and a competitive sport across Greenland — the Avannaata Qimussersua race covers 350 kilometres of frozen sea ice between communities connected by no roads, while fishing, kayaking, and the traditional Inuit sport of the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics preserve physical skills that Arctic survival required.
The highest point in Greenland is Gunnbjørn Fjeld, rising to 3,694 metres above sea level. The Greenland Ice Sheet contains approximately 2.85 million cubic kilometres of ice — if it melted entirely it would raise global sea levels by 7.2 metres and fundamentally alter the Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation; its calving glaciers produce the icebergs that drift south into the North Atlantic, the same waters the Titanic crossed in 1912.