The largest island on Earth, and about 80 per cent of it is covered by an ice sheet up to 3 km thick.
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Greenland
Greenland ยท Kalaallit Nunaat
North America
ยท Northern America
0Population
2.17Mkmยฒ of land
$54.26KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- GL ยท GRL
- Density
- -
- Languages
- Greenlandic
- Currency
- krone (DKK)
- Dial code
- +299
- Internet domain
- .gl
- Time zones
- 4
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 74.3190ยฐ N, 39.3350ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Greenlandic
- UN region
- Americas ยท Northern America
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $3.05B
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Greenland stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
208th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
13th
of 242 ยท 1.44% of world land
GDP per person
22nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
234th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Greenland
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 56,225 people, the 208th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 136,540 of everyone alive.
Covers 2,166,086 kmยฒ, making it the 13th largest country here - about 8.9 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 4 time zones, from America/Danmarkshavn to America/Thule.
The currency is the krone (DKK, symbol kr.).
The official language is Greenlandic.
Dials on +299 and uses the .gl internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $3 billion - the 184th largest economy here, or about $54,264 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Danmarkshavn
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UTC+00:00
America/Nuuk
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UTCโ01:00
America/Scoresbysund
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UTCโ01:00
America/Thule
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UTCโ03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Nuuk
Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
64.1983ยฐ N, 51.7327ยฐ W
14.8K
2
Sisimiut
Qeqqata Kommunia
66.9500ยฐ N, 53.6666ยฐ W
5.23K
3
Upernavik
Qaasuitsup Kommunia
72.7094ยฐ N, 56.1417ยฐ W
1.13K
4
Qaanaaq
Qaasuitsup Kommunia
77.4835ยฐ N, 69.3322ยฐ W
616
5
Narsarsuaq
Kommune Kujalleq
61.1666ยฐ N, 45.4166ยฐ W
145