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- Danish Realm
- Danish dependencies
- Dependent territories in North America
- Former Norwegian colonies
- Inuit territories
- Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
- Members of the Nordic Council
- Nordic countries
- Northern America
- Regions of the Arctic
- Special territories of the European Union
- States and territories established in 1979
Aaja Chemnitz Larsen
Aaja Chemnitz Arnatsiaq Larsen (born 2 December 1977 in Nuuk) is a Greenlandic politician, who is a member of the Danish Folketing for the Inuit Ataqatigiit, representing one of the two parliament seats for Greenland.
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Aboriginal whaling
Aboriginal whaling or indigenous whaling is the hunting of whales by indigenous peoples recognised by either IWC (International Whaling Commission) or the hunting is considered as part of indigenous activity by the country.
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Acanthostega
Acanthostega (meaning "spiny roof") is an extinct genus of stem-tetrapod, among the first vertebrate animals to have recognizable limbs.
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Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam
Aki-Matilda Tilia Ditte Høegh-Dam (born 17 October 1996) is a Danish-Greenlandic politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Siumut political party.
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Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.
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All-terrain vehicle
An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a light utility vehicle (LUV), a quad bike or quad (if it has four wheels), as defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is a vehicle that travels on low-pressure tires, has a seat that is straddled by the operator, and has handlebars.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Amt
Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe.
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Anthem
An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.
Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Arctic Archipelago
The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) and Iceland (an independent country). Greenland and Arctic Archipelago are regions of the Arctic.
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Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
Arctic hare
The Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) is a species of hare highly adapted to living in the Arctic tundra and other icy biomes.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
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Arctic redpoll
The Arctic redpoll or hoary redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni) is a bird species in the finch family Fringillidae.
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Arctic small tool tradition
The Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt) was a broad cultural entity that developed along the Alaska Peninsula, around Bristol Bay, and on the eastern shores of the Bering Strait around 2500 BC.
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Arctic Umiaq Line
Arctic Umiaq Line A/S (AUL) or Arctic Umiaq is a passenger and freight shipping line in Greenland.
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Arctic wolf
The Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos), also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesmere Island.
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atlantic salmon
The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.
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Auk
Auks or alcids are a group of birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
Australia (continent)
The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
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Autonomous administrative division
An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy—self-governance—under the national government.
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Autonomy
In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
Avannaata
Avannaata (lit) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality.
Åland
Åland (Ahvenanmaa) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland. Greenland and Åland are island countries, members of the Nordic Council, Nordic countries and special territories of the European Union.
Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Avannaata Imaa; Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
Balance of payments
In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a quarter or a year) and the outflow of money to the rest of the world.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Barnacle goose
The barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) is a species of goose that belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Basques
The Basques (or; euskaldunak; vascos; basques) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beluga whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.
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Betula pubescens
Betula pubescens (syn. Betula alba), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native and abundant throughout northern Europe and northern Asia, growing farther north than any other broadleaf tree.
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Bird migration
Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.
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Bishop of Greenland
The Bishop of Greenland (Biskop af Grønland) is a diocesan bishop of the Church of Denmark, and the leader of the Church of Greenland, which is an episcopal church in the Lutheran tradition.
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Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.
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Blue whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale.
Bluie
Bluie was the United States military code name for Greenland during World War II.
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.
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Boreal Kingdom
The Boreal Kingdom or Holarctic Kingdom (Holarctis) is a floristic kingdom identified by botanist Ronald Good (and later by Armen Takhtajan), which includes the temperate to Arctic portions of North America and Eurasia.
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Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus Balaena.
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Brattahlíð
Brattahlíð, often anglicised as Brattahlid, was Erik the Red's estate in the Eastern Settlement Viking colony he established in south-western Greenland toward the end of the 10th century.
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
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Bryophyte
Bryophytes are a group of land plants, sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses.
Buksefjord hydroelectric power plant
The Buksefjord hydroelectric power plant is the first and largest hydroelectric power plant in Greenland.
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Camp Century
Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland.
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Cantino planisphere
The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is a manuscript Portuguese world map preserved at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy.
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Cape Farewell, Greenland
Cape Farewell (Nunap Isua; Kap Farvel) is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland.
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Cape Morris Jesup
Cape Morris Jesup (Kap Morris Jesup) is a headland in Peary Land, Greenland.
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Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is a UK-based website specialising in the science and policy of climate change.
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Carbon dioxide removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a process in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere by deliberate human activities and durably stored in geological, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs, or in products.
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Cargo
In transportation, freight refers to goods conveyed by land, water or air, while cargo refers specifically to freight when conveyed via water or air.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
Ceremony
A ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.
Charismatic Christianity
Charismatic Christianity is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts as an everyday part of a believer's life.
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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion, and an annual production of more than 50 billion birds.
Chilly Friday
Chilly Friday is a rock band from Greenland formed on a Friday in 2000, and deriving their name thereof, the band originates from Nuuk.
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Christian IV of Denmark
Christian IV (12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 until his death in 1648.
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Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland
Christian IV's expeditions were sent by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway to Greenland and Arctic waterways during the years 1605–1607.
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Christian music
Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christianization
Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity.
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Christiansfeld
Christiansfeld, with a population of 2,979 (1 January 2024), is a town in Kolding Municipality in Southern Jutland in Region of Southern Denmark.
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Church of Denmark
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church (the People's Church, or unofficially label; the Congregation), sometimes called the Church of Denmark, is the established, state-supported church in Denmark.
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Church of Greenland
The Church of Greenland (lit), consisting of the Diocese of Greenland is the official Lutheran church in Greenland under the leadership of the Bishop of Greenland.
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Circumboreal Region
The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan.
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Circumpolar peoples
Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various indigenous peoples of the Arctic region.
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Climate change scenario
A climate change scenario is a hypothetical future based on a "set of key driving forces".
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
College of Missions
The College of Missions (Missionskollegiet; Collegium de cursu Evangelii promovendo) or Royal Mission College (Kongelige Missions-Kollegium) was a Dano-Norwegian association based in Copenhagen which funded and directed Protestant missions under royal patronage.
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Common eider
The common eider (pronounced) (Somateria mollissima), also called St.
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Common ringed plover
The common ringed plover or ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is a small plover that breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland.
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Compulsory education
Compulsory education refers to a period of education that is required of all people and is imposed by the government.
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Constitution of Denmark
The Constitutional Act of the Realm of Denmark (Danmarks Riges Grundlov), also known as the Constitutional Act of the Kingdom of Denmark, or simply the Constitution (Grundloven, Grundlógin, Tunngaviusumik inatsit), is the constitution of the Kingdom of Denmark, applying equally in the Realm of Denmark: Denmark proper, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Continent
A continent is any of several large geographical regions.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Council of State (Denmark)
The Council of State is the privy council of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Country (disambiguation)
A country is a geopolitical area–often synonymous with a sovereign state.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Craft
A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.
Cryolite
Cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once-large deposit at Ivittuut on the west coast of Greenland, mined commercially until 1987.
Cycling
Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle.
Czechs
The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.
Danes
Danes (danskere) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark.
Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority
The Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority (Trafikstyrelsen) is the Danish government agency responsible for regulating, planning and safety relating to public transport in Denmark.
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Danish colonization of the Americas
Denmark and the former real union of Denmark–Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through the 20th centuries, large portions of which were found in the Americas. Greenland and Danish colonization of the Americas are former Norwegian colonies.
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Danish krone
The krone (plural: kroner; sign: kr.; code: DKK) is the official currency of Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, introduced on 1 January 1875.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
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Danish nationality law
Danish nationality law is governed by the Constitutional Act and the Consolidated Act of Danish Nationality.
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Danish overseas colonies
Danish overseas colonies and Dano-Norwegian colonies (De danske kolonier) were the colonies that Denmark–Norway (Denmark after 1814) possessed from 1536 until 1953. Greenland and Danish overseas colonies are former Norwegian colonies.
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Danish people in Greenland
Danish Greenlanders are ethnic Danes residing in Greenland and their descendants.
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Danish Realm
The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, or simply Denmark, is a sovereign state and refers to the area over which the monarch of Denmark is head of state. Greenland and Danish Realm are island countries.
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Davis Strait
The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea.
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Deltaterrasserne
Deltaterrasserne ("Delta Terraces") is a pre-Inuit occupation archaeological site located near the head of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord on the Peary Land peninsula in northern Greenland.
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Democrats (Greenland)
The Democrats (Demokraatit; Demokraterne) is a liberal, unionist political party in Greenland.
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Demographics of Greenland
This is a demography of the population of Greenland including population density, ethnicity, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Denmark was represented by Tommy Seebach, with the song "Disco Tango", at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 31 March in Jerusalem.
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Denmark–Norway
Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.
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Dennis Schmitt
Dennis Schmitt (born May 23, 1946) is an American veteran explorer, adventurer and composer.
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Devolution
Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.
Disko Bay
Disko Bay (Qeqertarsuup tunua; DiskobugtenChristensen, N.O. & al. " ". Arctic Circular, Vol. 4 (1951), pp. 83–85. Op. cit. "Northern News". Arctic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar 1952), pp. 58–59.) is a large bay on the western coast of Greenland.
Dog sled
A dog sled or dog sleigh is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow.
Dorset culture
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from to between and, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic.
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Drift ice
Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
Duke of Ferrara and of Modena
This is a list of rulers of the estates owned by the Este family, which main line of Marquesses (Marchesi d'Este) rose in 1039 with Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
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East Greenland Orogen
The East Greenland orogen, also known as East Greenland mountain range, is the linear mountain range along the eastern Greenland coast, from 70 to 82 degrees north latitude.
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Eastern Settlement
The Eastern Settlement (Eystribygð) was the first and by far the larger of the two main areas of Norse Greenland, settled by Norsemen from Iceland.
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Eco-socialism
Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism, socialist ecology, ecological materialism, or revolutionary ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization.
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Economy of Greenland
The economy of Greenland is characterized as small, mixed and vulnerable.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
Eismitte
Eismitte, also called Mid-Ice in English, was a meteorological station established, in the middle of the Greenland Ice Sheet, by the 1930-31 German Greenland Expedition.
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island (lit; île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and third largest island, and the tenth largest in the world.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Equisetum
Equisetum (horsetail, marestail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
Ercole I d'Este
Ercole I d'Este KG (English: Hercules I; 26 October 1431 – 25 January 1505) was Duke of Ferrara from 1471 until 1505.
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Erik the Red
Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland.
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Erik the Red's Land
Erik the Red's Land (Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. Greenland and Erik the Red's Land are former Norwegian colonies.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Eskaleut languages
The Eskaleut, Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
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Eske Brun
Eske Brun (May 25, 1904 – October 11, 1987) was a Danish high civil servant in and later governor of Greenland and connected to Greenland from 1932 to 1964.
Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
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European colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Development Fund
The European Development Fund (EDF) was the main instrument for European Union (EU) aid for development cooperation in Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP Group) countries and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT).
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European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
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European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's investment bank and is owned by the 27 member states.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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European Union citizenship
European Union citizenship is afforded to all nationals of member states of the European Union (EU).
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Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Executive (government)
The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.
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Faroe Islanders
Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (føroyingar; færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland and Faroe Islands are Christian states, Danish Realm, Danish dependencies, former Norwegian colonies, island countries, kingdom of Norway (872–1397), members of the Nordic Council, Nordic countries and special territories of the European Union.
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Fern
The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
Fin whale
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also known as the finback whale or common rorqual, is a species of baleen whale and the second-longest cetacean after the blue whale. The biggest individual reportedly measured in length, with a maximum recorded weight of 77 to 81 tonnes.
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. Greenland and Finland are Christian states and members of the Nordic Council.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Fishing industry
The fishing industry includes any industry or activity that takes, cultures, processes, preserves, stores, transports, markets or sells fish or fish products.
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Fluoride
Fluoride.
Folketing
The Folketing (Folketinget), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Foreign policy
Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities.
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Frederik X
Frederik X (Frederik André Henrik Christian; born 26 May 1968) is King of Denmark.
Friday
Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday.
Garðar, Greenland
Garðar was the seat of the bishop in the Norse settlements in Greenland.
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Gaspar Corte-Real
Gaspar Corte-Real (1450–1501) was a Portuguese explorer who, alongside his father João Vaz Corte-Real and brother Miguel, participated in various exploratory voyages sponsored by the Portuguese Crown.
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Gemstone industry in Greenland
Gemstones have been found in Greenland, including diamond, ruby, sapphire, kornerupine, tugtupite, lapis lazuli, amazonite, peridot, quartz, spinel, topaz, and tourmaline.
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Geopolitics
Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.
Germans
Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.
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Global Affairs Canada
Global Affairs Canada (GAC; Affaires mondiales Canada; AMC)Global Affairs Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.
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Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
Grand Canyon (Greenland)
The Grand Canyon of Greenland is a tentative canyon of record length discovered underneath the Greenland ice sheet as reported in the journal Science on 30 August 2013 (submitted 29 April 2013), by scientists from the University of Bristol led by Jonathan Bamber, University of Calgary, and University of Urbino, who described it as a mega-canyon.
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Greater white-fronted goose
The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) is a species of goose that is closely related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (A. erythropus). The greater white-fronted goose is migratory, breeding in northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia, and winters farther south in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.
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Greenland and the European Union
Greenland, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark (which also includes the territories of Denmark and Faroe Islands) is one of the EU members’ overseas countries and territories (OCT) associated to the European Union.
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Greenland Dog
The Greenland Dog (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Qimmiat, Danish: Grønlandshund) is a large breed of husky-type dog kept as a sled dog.
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Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world.
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Greenland in World War II
The fall of Denmark in April 1940 left the Danish colony of Greenland an unoccupied territory of an occupied nation, under the possibility of seizure by the United Kingdom, United States or Canada.
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Greenland men's national handball team
The Greenland national handball team (Grønlands håndboldlandshold) is the national handball team of Greenland and is controlled by the Greenland Handball Federation.
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Greenland Provincial Council
The Greenland Provincial Council (Grønlands Landsråd) was the provincial government of Greenland between 1950, when it was formed from the union of the earlier North and South Greenland Provincial Councils, and 1 May 1979, when it was replaced by the Greenland Home Rule Government and its Parliament (Kalaallit Nunaanni Inatsisartut; Grønlands Landsting).
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Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.
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Greenlandic Inuit
The Greenlandic Inuit (kalaallit, Grønlandsk Inuit) are the indigenous and most populous ethnic group in Greenland.
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Greenlandic language
Greenlandic (kalaallisut; grønlandsk) is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland.
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Greenlandic sheep
The Greenlandic sheep (kalaallit savaataat or sava, grønlandsk får) is a breed of domestic sheep.
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Grey seal
The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a large seal of the family Phocidae, which are commonly referred to as "true seals" or "earless seals".
Gunnbjørn Fjeld
Gunnbjørn Fjeld is the tallest mountain in Greenland, Denmark, and north of the Arctic Circle.
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Gyrfalcon
The gyrfalcon, the largest of the falcon genus, is a bird of prey. The abbreviation gyr is also used. It breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra, and the islands of northern North America and the Eurosiberian region. It is mainly a resident there also, but some gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season, or in winter.
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.
Hans Egede
Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland.
Hans Island
Hans Island (Inuktitut and Tartupaluk,; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ; Hans Ø; île Hans) is an island in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland.
Head of government
In the executive branch, the head of government is the highest or the second-highest official of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
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Herjolfsnes
Herjolfsnes was a Norse settlement in Greenland, 50 km northwest of Cape Farewell.
Hieracium
Hieracium, known by the common name hawkweed and classically as (from ancient Greek ιεράξ, 'hawk'), is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and closely related to dandelion (Taraxacum), chicory (Cichorium), prickly lettuce (Lactuca) and sow thistle (Sonchus), which are part of the tribe Cichorieae.
High Commission of Denmark, Nuuk
The High Commission of Denmark in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaanni Naalagaaffiup Sinniisoqarfia, Rigsombuddet i Grønland) is a Danish institution in Greenland.
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Hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.
Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
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History
History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
HIV adult prevalence rate
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, varies in prevalence from nation to nation.
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Home rule
Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
Hooded seal
The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is a large phocid found only in the central and western North Atlantic, ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.
Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.
Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.
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Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.
Ice bridge
An ice bridge is a frozen natural structure formed over seas, bays, rivers or lake surfaces.
Ice calving
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.
Ice climbing
Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of frozen water.
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Ice core
An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.
Ice sheet
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than.
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. Greenland and Iceland are Christian states, former Norwegian colonies, island countries, members of the Nordic Council, Nordic countries and regions of the Arctic.
Icelandair
Icelandair is the flag carrier of Iceland, with its corporate head office on the property of Reykjavík Airport in the capital city Reykjavík.
Icelanders
Icelanders (Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland.
Ichthyostega
Ichthyostega (from ἰχθῦς, 'fish' and στέγη, 'roof') is an extinct genus of limbed tetrapodomorphs from the Late Devonian of what is now Greenland.
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Ilulissat Airport
Ilulissat Airport (Mittarfik Ilulissat, Ilulissat Lufthavn, originally Jakobshavn Lufthavn); is a minor international airport serving Ilulissat, Greenland, the entire Disko Bay Region, the North and West Greenland.
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Ilulissat Icefjord
Ilulissat Icefjord (Ilulissat Kangerlua) is a fjord in western Greenland.
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Inatsisartut
The Inatsisartut (lit; thing of Greenland), also known as the Parliament of Greenland in English, is the unicameral parliament (legislative branch) of Greenland, an autonomous territory*.
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Independence I culture
Independence I was a culture of Paleo-Eskimos who lived in northern Greenland and the Canadian Arctic between 2400 and 1900 BC.
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Independence II culture
Independence II was a Paleo-Eskimo culture that flourished in northern and northeastern Greenland from around 700 to 80 BC, north and south of the Independence Fjord.
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Index of Greenland-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
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International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
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Inughuit
The Inughuit (also spelled Inuhuit), or the Smith Sound Inuit, historically Arctic Highlanders or Polar Eskimos, are Greenlandic Inuit.
Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Inuit Ataqatigiit
Inuit Ataqatigiit (Folkets Samfund) is a democratic socialist, separatist political party in Greenland that aims to make Greenland an independent state.
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Inuit music
Traditional Inuit music (sometimes Eskimo music, Inuit-Yupik music, Yupik music or Iñupiat music), the music of the Inuit, Yupik, and Iñupiat, has been based on drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq (Inuit throat singing) has become of interest in Canada and abroad.
Inuit Party
The Inuit Party (Partii Inuit) was a separatist party in Greenland, formed by dissidents from the then-governing Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA).
Inuit religion
Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland.
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Inuktun
Inuktun (Polar Inuit, avanersuarmiutut, nordgrønlandsk, polarinuitisk, thulesproget) is the language of approximately 1,000 indigenous Inughuit (Polar Inuit), inhabiting the world's northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland.
Iqaluit
Iqaluit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ) is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
ISO 3166-2:GL
ISO 3166-2:GL is the entry for Greenland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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Issi
Issi (meaning "cold" in Greenlandic) is a plateosaurid dinosaur described in 2021 from the Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Ivittuut
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût) (Kalaallisut: "Grassy Place") is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq municipality on the ruins of the former Norse Middle Settlement.
James Hall (explorer)
James Hall (d. 1612) was an English explorer.
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Jørgen Brønlund Fjord
Jørgen Brønlund Fjord or Bronlund Fjord is a fjord in southern Peary Land, northern Greenland.
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Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.
Julie Præst Wilche
Julie Præst Wilche (born 1971 or 1972) is a Danish civil servant and diplomat.
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Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis, the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Kaffeklubben Island
Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island (Kaffeklubben Ø; Inuit Qeqertaat) is an uninhabited island lying off the northern shore of Greenland.
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Kalaallit
Kalaallit are a Greenlandic Inuit ethnic group, being the largest group in Greenland, concentrated in the west.
Kalaallit Nunaat Arctic Steppe
The Kalaallit Nunaat Arctic Steppe ecoregion covers the low coastal areas of western and southern Greenland, reaching in up to 100 km before bare rock and ice become dominant.
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Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra
The Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra ecoregion covers the coastal areas of northern including the upper half of the west coast and the upper one-third of the east coast.
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Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa
Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (officially rendered into English as the Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation), also known by its abbreviation KNR, is Greenland's national public broadcasting organization.
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Kalmar Union
The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian, and Kalmarunionen; Kalmarin unioni; Kalmarsambandið; Unio Calmariensis) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by widowed Queen Margaret of Norway and Sweden.
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Kangerlussuaq Airport
Kangerlussuaq Airport (Mittarfik Kangerlussuaq, Søndre Strømfjord Lufthavn) is an airport in Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland.
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Kangilinnguit
Kangilinnguit or Kangilínguit, formerly Grønnedal, is a settlement and location of a former naval base in Greenland's Sermersooq municipality, located at the mouth of Arsuk Fjord in southwestern Greenland.
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Kim Kielsen
Kim Kielsen (born 30 November 1966) is a Greenlandic politician, who served as leader of the Siumut party and sixth prime minister of Greenland between 2014 and 2021.
King eider
The king eider (pronounced) (Somateria spectabilis) is a large sea duck that breeds along Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia.
Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
The term Norwegian Realm (*Noregsveldi, Norgesveldet, Noregsveldet) and Old Kingdom of Norway refer to the Kingdom of Norway's peak of power at the 13th century after a long period of civil war before 1240.
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Kittiwake
The kittiwakes (genus Rissa) are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and the red-legged kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris).
Konrad Steffen
Konrad "Koni" Steffen (2 January 1952 – 8 August 2020) was a Swiss glaciologist, known for his research into the impact of global warming on the Arctic.
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Konungs skuggsjá
Konungs skuggsjá (Old Norse for "King's mirror"; Speculum regale, modern Kongsspegelen (Nynorsk) or Kongespeilet (Bokmål)) is a Norwegian didactic text in Old Norse from around 1250, an example of speculum literature that deals with politics and morality.
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Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarskiy kray) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) located in Siberia.
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Kujalleq
Kujalleq (Greenlandic:, lit) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009.
Labrador
Labrador is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Landnámabók
Landnámabók ("Book of Settlements"), often shortened to Landnáma, is a medieval Icelandic written work which describes in considerable detail the settlement (landnám) of Iceland by the Norse in the 9th and 10th centuries CE.
Lapland longspur
The Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), also known as the Lapland bunting, is a passerine bird in the longspur family Calcariidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches).
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Laurentia
Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America.
Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Lincoln Sea
Lincoln Sea (Mer de Lincoln; Lincolnhavet) is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from Cape Columbia, Canada, in the west to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, in the east.
List of cities and towns in Greenland
This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2021.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries and dependencies by population density
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile.
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List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita
This is a list of countries by alcohol consumption measured in equivalent litres of pure alcohol (ethanol) consumed per capita per year.
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List of countries by suicide rate
The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources.
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List of Danish monarchs
This is a list of Danish monarchs, that is, the kings and queen regnants of Denmark.
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List of first-level administrative divisions by area
This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.
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List of governors of Greenland
This is a list of governors of Greenland.
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List of islands by area
This list includes all islands in the world larger than.
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List of members of the Folketing, 2022–present
This is a list of the 179 members of the Folketing in the 2022 session.
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List of members of the Inatsisartut, 2014–2018
This is a list of the current members of the Greenlandic Parliament (Inatsisartut), as of 11 January 2018.
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List of Norwegian monarchs
The list of Norwegian monarchs (or kongerekka) begins in 872: the traditional dating of the Battle of Hafrsfjord, after which victorious King Harald Fairhair merged several petty kingdoms into that of his father.
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List of speakers of the Inatsisartut
The position of Speaker (Siulittaasoq) (Formand) of the Inatsisartut (the Greenlandic Parliament) was created in 1979.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.
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Long-tailed duck
The long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) or coween, formerly known as the oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
Lycophyte
The lycophytes, when broadly circumscribed, are a group of vascular plants that include the clubmosses.
Marine mammal
Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.
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Maritime boundary
A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria.
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Matthäus Stach
Matthäus Stach (sometimes anglicized to Matthew Stach) (March 4, 1711, Mankovice – December 21, 1787, Bethabara) was a Moravian missionary in Greenland.
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Múte Bourup Egede
Múte Inequnaaluk Bourup Egede (born 11 March 1987) is a Greenlandic politician serving as the seventh prime minister of Greenland, a position he has held since April 2021.
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Melting
Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid.
Meltwater
Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans.
Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
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Mette Frederiksen
Mette Frederiksen (born 19 November 1977) is a Danish politician who has been serving as prime minister of Denmark since June 2019, and leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015.
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Miguel Corte-Real
Miguel Corte-Real (– 1502?) was a Portuguese explorer who charted about 600 miles of the coast of Labrador.
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Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Mimi Karlsen
Mimi Karlsen (born 23 January 1957 in Maniitsoq, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark) is a Greenlandic politician.
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Minister (government)
A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers.
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Minke whale
The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale.
Missile launch facility
A missile launch facility, also known as an underground missile silo, launch facility (LF), or nuclear silo, is a vertical cylindrical structure constructed underground, for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs).
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Monarchy of Denmark
The monarchy of Denmark is a constitutional institution and a historic office of the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland and monarchy of Denmark are Danish Realm.
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Moravian Church
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Jednota bratrská) founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.
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Moravian missions in Greenland
The Moravian missions in Greenland (Qatanngutigiinniat; Brødremenigheden; Herrnhuters) were established by the Moravian Church or United Brethren and operated between 1733 and 1900.
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Moravians
Moravians (Moravané or colloquially Moraváci, outdated Moravci) are a West Slavic ethnographic group from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, who speak the Moravian dialects of Czech or Common Czech or a mixed form of both.
Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
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Multiannual Financial Framework
The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) of the European Commission, also called the financial perspective, is a seven-year framework regulating its EU annual budget.
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Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.
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Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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Muskox
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus, in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in translit; in translit, label), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae.
Mystriosuchus
Mystriosuchus (meaning "spoon-crocodile") Retrieved on May 25th, 2008.
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Naalakkersuisut
Naalakkersuisut (Cabinet of Greenland, Grønlands Regering) is the chief executive body and the government of Greenland since the island became self-governing in 1979.
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Nanook (band)
Nanook are a Greenlandic pop-rock band formed by brothers Christian and Frederick Elsner in 2008.
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Nares Strait
Nares Strait (Nares Strædet; Détroit de Nares) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of Baffin Bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean.
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Narsarsuaq
Narsarsuaq (lit. Great Plain;Facts and History of Narsarsuaq, Narsarsuad Tourist Information old spelling: Narssarssuaq) is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.
Narsarsuaq Air Base
Bluie West One, later known as Narsarsuaq Air Base and Narsarsuaq Airport, was built on a glacial moraine at what is now the village of Narsarsuaq, near the southern tip of Greenland.
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Narsarsuaq Airport
Narsarsuaq Airport (Mittarfik Narsarsuaq) is an airport located in Narsarsuaq, a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.
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Narwhal
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a species of toothed whale native to the Arctic.
Nasdaq Copenhagen
The Nasdaq Copenhagen, formerly known as the Copenhagen Stock Exchange (Københavns Fondsbørs), is an international marketplace for Danish securities, including shares, bonds, treasury bills and notes, and financial futures and options.
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Nation
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Nearctic realm
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
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New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.
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Newfoundland (island)
Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Canada and the continental United States.
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.
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Nordic Labour Journal
Nordic Labour Journal is an online magazine published by the Norwegian Work Research Institute in Oslo on commission from the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Nordostrundingen
Nordostrundingen (Nordostrundingen, Northeastern rounding, in English Northeast Foreland), is a headland located at the northeastern end of Greenland.
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Norse colonization of North America
The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating a short term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland. Greenland and Norse colonization of North America are kingdom of Norway (872–1397).
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Norse settlements in Greenland
Norse settlements in Greenland were established in the years following 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. Greenland and Norse settlements in Greenland are former Norwegian colonies.
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North Germanic peoples
North Germanic peoples, Nordic peoples and in a medieval context Norsemen, were a Germanic linguistic group originating from the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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North Ice
North Ice was a research station of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954) on the inland ice of Greenland.
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park (Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea).
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Northern collared lemming
The northern collared lemming or Nearctic collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus), sometimes called the Peary Land collared lemming in Canada, is a small lemming found in Arctic North America and Wrangel Island.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Northernmost point of land
The northernmost point of land on Earth is a contentious issue due to variation of definition.
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Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Greenland and Norway are members of the Nordic Council and Nordic countries.
Norwegian Polar Institute
The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI; Norsk Polarinstitutt) is Norway's central governmental institution for scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic.
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Norwegians
Norwegians (Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population.
Nuclear weapons of the United States
The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
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Nuclear-free zone
A nuclear-free zone is an area in which nuclear weapons (see nuclear-weapon-free zone) and nuclear power plants are banned.
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Nuna asiilasooq
"Nuna asiilasooq" ("Et vældigt klippeland", "A Huge Rocky Land") is a Greenlandic song used as an ethnic anthem by the self-governing Kalaallit of Greenland.
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Nunaoil
Nunaoil is the national oil company of Greenland founded in 1985 as an equal partnership between the Greenland Home Rule Government and DONG Energy It is a non-paying partner in all licenses around Greenland.
Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit
"Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit" ("Vort ældgamle land under isblinkens bavn",; "You, Our Ancient Land") is the national anthem of Greenland, an autonomous state of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Nuuk
Nuuk (Nuuk, formerly Godthåb) is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Nuuk Airport
Nuuk Airport (Mittarfik Nuuk; Nuuk lufthavn, previously Godthåb lufthavn) is an airport serving Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
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Nuuk Posse
Nuuk Posse is a hip hop group from Greenland.
Ocean heat content
Ocean heat content (OHC) or ocean heat uptake (OHU) is the energy absorbed and stored by oceans.
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Olaf Tryggvason
Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000.
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Old Norse religion
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.
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Operation Chrome Dome
Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in positions to attack targets in the Soviet Union if they were ordered to do so.
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Operation World
Operation World is a reference book and prayer guide, begun by Patrick Johnstone and continued by Jason Mandryk, both from WEC International, a Christian mission agency.
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Outline of Greenland
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Greenland: Greenland – autonomous Nordic nation that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth.
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Paleo-Eskimo
The Paleo-Eskimo (also pre-Thule or pre-Inuit) were the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region from Chukotka (e.g., Chertov Ovrag) in present-day Russia across North America to Greenland prior to the arrival of the modern Inuit (Eskimo) and related cultures.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Pandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Passenger
A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward.
Paul Egede
Paul or Poul Hansen Egede (9 September 1708 – 6 June 1789) was a Dano-Norwegian theologian, missionary, and scholar who was principally concerned with the Lutheran mission among the Kalaallit people in Greenland that had been established by his father, Hans, in 1721.
Paul-Émile Victor
Paul-Émile Victor (born Paul Eugène Victor; 28 June 1907 – 7 March 1995) was a French ethnologist and explorer.
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Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean.
Pegmatite
A pegmatite is an igneous rock showing a very coarse texture, with large interlocking crystals usually greater in size than and sometimes greater than.
Permanent Court of International Justice
The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, existed from 1922 to 1946.
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Philip Conkling
Philip Wheeler Conkling is the founder and former president of the Island Institute, a membership-based nonprofit organization located in Rockland, Maine that serves as a voice for the balanced future of the islands and waters of the Gulf of Maine, especially the 15 year-round island communities along the Maine coast.
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Phytogeography
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón.
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Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala.
Pink-footed goose
The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and recently Novaya Zemlya.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
Pituffik Space Base
Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, is the United States Space Force's northernmost base, and the northernmost installation of the U.S. Armed Forces, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the northwest coast of Greenland.
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Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element; it has symbol Pt and atomic number 78.
Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Polar Research
Polar Research is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering natural and social scientific research on the polar regions.
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Politics of Denmark
The politics of Denmark take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state in which the monarch of Denmark, King Frederik X, is the head of state.
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Polyphony
Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Prime Minister of Denmark
The prime minister of Denmark (Danmarks statsminister, Forsætisráðharri, Ministeriuneq) is the head of government in the Kingdom of Denmark comprising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
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Prime Minister of Greenland
The prime minister of Greenland (Leader of the government; Landsstyreformand), officially the premier of Greenland, is the head of government of Greenland, a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces.
Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.
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Project Iceworm
Project Iceworm was a top secret United States Army program of the Cold War, which aimed to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet.
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Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland
Since 1867, the United States has considered, or made, several proposals to purchase the island of Greenland from Denmark, as it did with the Danish West Indies in 1917.
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Proselytism
Proselytism is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Puffin
Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula.
Qaanaaq
Qaanaaq, formerly known as Thule or New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Qaasuitsup
Clockwise from top left: Ukkusissat, Upernavik, Ilulissat Icefjord, Uummannaq Qaasuitsup (Place of Polar Darkness) was a municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2017.
Qeqertalik
Qeqertalik (lit) is a municipality of Greenland created in 2018 from four southern regions of the former Qaasuitsup Municipality.
Qeqqata
Qeqqata (lit) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009.
Rain gauge
A rain gauge (also known as udometer, pluviometer, ombrometer, and hyetometer) is an instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation over a predefined area, over a period of time.
Rare-earth element
The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides, and sometimes the lanthanides (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this series, are usually included as rare earths), are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals.
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Rasmus Lyberth
Rasmus Ole Lyberth (born 21 August 1951) is a Greenlandic-Danish musician and actor.
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Red-necked phalarope
The red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), also known as the northern phalarope and hyperborean phalarope, is a small wader.
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Red-throated loon
The red-throated loon (North America) or red-throated diver (Britain and Ireland) (Gavia stellata) is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere.
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Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein
During the Reformation, the territories ruled by the Danish-based House of Oldenburg converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
Robert J. Walker
Robert James Walker (July 19, 1801November 11, 1869) was an American lawyer, economist and politician.
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Rock climbing
Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.
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Rock ptarmigan
The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen
The Diocese of Copenhagen is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church named after its episcopal see, the Danish national capital, Copenhagen and covers all Denmark.
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Royal Arctic Line
Royal Arctic Line A/S (RAL) or Royal Arctic is a seaborne freight company in Greenland, wholly owned by the Government of Greenland.
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Ruby
Ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).
Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga of Erik the Red, in Eiríks saga rauða, is an Icelandic saga on the Norse exploration of North America.
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Sagas of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas.
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Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million.
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Salix glauca
Salix glauca is a species of flowering plant in the willow family known by the common names gray willow, grayleaf willow, white willow, and glaucous willow.
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Salvelinus
Salvelinus is a genus of salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout".
Saqqaq culture
The Saqqaq culture (named after the Saqqaq settlement, the site of many archaeological finds) was a Paleo-Eskimo culture in southern Greenland.
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Saxifraga
Saxifraga is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 473 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages or rockfoils.
Scholarship
A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.
Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
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Seal meat
Seal meat is the flesh, including the blubber and organs, of seals used as food for humans or other animals.
Secretary of state
The title secretary of state or state's secretary is commonly used for senior or mid-level posts in governments around the world.
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Sedna (mythology)
Sedna (Sanna, previously Sedna or Sidne) is the goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit mythology, also known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea.
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Self-governance
Self-governance, self-government, self-sovereignty, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority.
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Sermersooq
Sermersooq (lit) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities.
Sermitsiaq (newspaper)
Sermitsiaq is one of two national newspapers in Greenland.
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Settlement of Iceland
The settlement of Iceland (landnámsöld) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the ninth century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Sheep dog
A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep.
Short-eared owl
The short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) is a widespread grassland species in the family Strigidae.
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Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Siissisoq
Siissisoq was a Greenlandic heavy metal band, formed in 1994.
Simon Lynge
Simon Lynge (born 22 January 1980) is a singer-songwriter who was raised in Greenland and Denmark.
Sirius Dog Sled Patrol
The Sirius Dog Sled Patrol (Slædepatruljen Sirius), known informally as Siriuspatruljen (the Sirius Patrol) and formerly known as North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol and Resolute Dog Sled Patrol, is an elite Danish naval unit.
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Sisimiut
Sisimiut, formerly known as Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America.
Siumut
Siumut is a political party in Greenland in the social democratic tradition.
Skaergaard intrusion
The Skaergaard intrusion is a layered igneous intrusion in the Kangerlussuaq area of East Greenland and is composed of various rocks and minerals including gabbro, olivine, apatite, and basalt.
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Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
Skræling
Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland).
Skua
The skuas are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae.
Snow bunting
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a passerine bird in the family Calcariidae.
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Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet.
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Snowy owl
The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), also known as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl, is a large, white owl of the true owl family.
Society for Threatened Peoples
The Society for Threatened Peoples International STPI (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker-International, GfbV-International) is an international NGO and human rights organization with its headquarters in Göttingen, Germany.
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Sofie Petersen
Sofie Petersen (born 1955) is a Greenlandic Lutheran bishop.
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Sondrestrom Air Base
Sondrestrom Air Base, originally Bluie West-8, was a United States Air Force base in central Greenland.
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Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia, commonly called rowan (also) and mountain-ash, is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family.
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Southern Jutland
Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland; German: Südjütland) is the name for the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Space Delta 2
Space Delta 2 (DEL 2) is the United States Space Force's space domain awareness and space battle management delta and is headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.
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Space Delta 4
Space Delta 4 (DEL 4) is a United States Space Force unit responsible for providing strategic and theater missile warning to the United States and its international partners.
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Space Delta 6
Space Delta 6 (DEL 6) is a United States Space Force unit which assures access to space through the $6.8 billion Satellite Control Network and defensive cyberspace capabilities for space mission systems.
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Special territories of members of the European Economic Area
The special territories of members of the European Economic Area (EEA) are the 32 special territories of EU member states and EFTA member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union and the European Free Trade Association. Greenland and special territories of members of the European Economic Area are special territories of the European Union.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
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Statistics Greenland
Statistics Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaanni Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik, Grønlands Statistik) is a central statistical organization in Greenland, operating under the auspices of the Government of Greenland, working in cooperation with the Ministry for Finance.
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Stoat
The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the Eurasian ermine or ermine, is a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America.
Student
A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution.
Suaasat
Suaasat is a traditional Greenlandic soup.
Suicide in Greenland
Suicide in Greenland, an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, is a significant national social issue.
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Sumé (band)
Sumé (meaning "where?" in Greenlandic) was a Greenlandic rock band considered the pioneers of Greenlandic rock music.
Summit Camp
Summit Camp, also known as Summit Station, is a year-round staffed research station near the apex of the Greenland ice sheet.
Svalbard
Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Greenland and Svalbard are island countries and regions of the Arctic.
Telephone numbers in Greenland
Country Code: +299International Call Prefix: 00.
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Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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Telluric iron
Telluric iron, also called native iron, is iron that originated on Earth, and is found in a metallic form rather than as an ore.
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Terra nullius
Terra nullius (plural terrae nullius) is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land".
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The Australian
The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Thermonuclear weapon
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design.
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Thrall
A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age.
Thule people
The Thule or proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit.
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Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
Toggling harpoon
The toggling harpoon is an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown.
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Tourism in Greenland
Tourism in Greenland is a relatively young business area of the country.
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Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
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Treaty of Kiel
The Treaty of Kiel (Kieltraktaten) or Peace of Kiel (Swedish and Kielfreden or freden i Kiel) was concluded between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Sweden on one side and the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway on the other side on 14 January 1814 in Kiel.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
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Troaking
Troaking was the barter between the natives of Greenland and whalers from ports in Scotland.
Tungsten
Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74.
Tunu
Tunu, in Danish Østgrønland ("East Greenland"), was one of the three counties (amter) of Greenland until 31 December 2008.
Tunumiisut
Tunumiisut, also known as East Greenlandic (østgrønlandsk), is the language of the Tunumiit in East Greenland.
Tunumiit
Iivit or Tunumiit are Indigenous Greenlandic Inuit from Iivi Nunaa, Tunu in the area of Kangikajik and Ammassalik, the eastern part of Inuit Nunaat (East Greenland).
Tupilaq
A tupilaq (tupilak or ᑐᐱᓚᒃ in Inuktitut syllabics, plural tupilait) is a monster or carving of a monster.
TV 2 (Danish TV channel)
TV 2 (TV to) is a Danish government-owned broadcast and subscription television station, based in Odense, Funen.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
United Nations Statistics Division
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), formerly the United Nations Statistical Office, serves under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) as the central mechanism within the Secretariat of the United Nations to supply the statistical needs and coordinating activities of the global statistical system.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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United States Space Force
The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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University of Greenland
The University of Greenland (Ilisimatusarfik Kalaallit Nunaat; Grønlands Universitet) is Greenland's only university.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
UTC+00:00
UTC+00:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +00:00.
UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −04:00.
Uunartoq Qeqertaq
Uunartoq Qeqertaq (Greenlandic), Warming Island in English, is an island off the east central coast of Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle.
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Vicia cracca
Vicia cracca (tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, blue vetch, boreal vetch), is a species of flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Vocational education
Vocational education is education that prepares people for a skilled craft as an artisan, trade as a tradesperson, or work as a technician.
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Walrus ivory
Walrus ivory, also known as morse, comes from two modified upper canines of a walrus.
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Watkins Range
The Watkins Range (Watkins Bjerge) is Greenland's highest mountain range.
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Weather station
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate.
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Welfare state
A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.
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West Greenland Current
The West Greenland Current (WGC) is a weak cold water current that flows to the north along the west coast of Greenland.
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West Greenlandic
(), also known as West Greenlandic (vestgrønlandsk), is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people).
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Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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Western Settlement
The Western Settlement (Vestribygð) was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around 985 in medieval Greenland.
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
White-tailed eagle
The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), sometimes known as the 'sea eagle', is a large bird of prey, widely distributed across temperate Eurasia.
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William H. Seward
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
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Withdrawal of Greenland from the European Communities
After being a part of the European Communities (EC) for twelve years, Greenland withdrew in 1985.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
.gl
.gl is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for Greenland.
11th meridian west
The meridian 11° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident, sometimes known as the Thule affair or Thule accident (Thuleulykken), involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland.
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1979 Greenlandic home rule referendum
A consultative referendum on home rule was held in Greenland on 17 January 1979.
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2008 Greenlandic self-government referendum
A non-binding referendum on Greenland's autonomy was held on 25 November 2008 to support or oppose the Greenland Self-Government Act.
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2009 Greenlandic general election
General elections were held in Greenland on 2 June 2009.
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2013 Greenlandic general election
General elections were held in Greenland on 12 March 2013.
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2014 Greenlandic general election
Early general elections were held in Greenland on 28 November 2014.
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2018 Greenlandic general election
General elections were held in Greenland on 24 April 2018, electing all 31 members of Parliament.
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59th parallel north
The 59th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 59 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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74th meridian west
The meridian 74° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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83-42
83-42 was a rocky ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.
83rd parallel north
The 83rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 83 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.
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See also
Danish Realm
Danish dependencies
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
Dependent territories in North America
Former Norwegian colonies
- Danish colonization of the Americas
- Danish overseas colonies
- Earldom of Orkney
- Erik the Red's Land
- Faroe Islands
- Finnmark
- Fridtjof Nansen Land
- Greenland
- Hebrides
- Iceland
- Inner Hebrides
- Isle of Man
- Jämtland
- List of possessions of Norway
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Norse settlements in Greenland
- Orkney
- Outer Hebrides
- Shetland
- Sverdrup Islands
Inuit territories
- Alaska North Slope
- Greenland
- Inuvialuit
- Inuvialuit Settlement Region
- Nunatsiavut
- NunatuKavut
- Nunavik
- Nunavut
- Seward Peninsula
- St. Lawrence Island
Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
- Bjarmaland
- Bohuslän
- Earldom of Orkney
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
- Härjedalen
- Hebrides
- Jämtland
- Kingdom of Dublin
- Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)
- Kingdom of the Isles
- List of possessions of Norway
- Murman Coast
- Norse colonization of North America
- Norse–Gaels
- Orkney
- Scandinavian Scotland
- Scandinavian York
- Shetland
Members of the Nordic Council
Nordic countries
- Åland
- Climate of the Nordic countries
- Dagfinn Høybråten
- Denmark
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
- Iceland
- List of diplomatic missions of the Nordic countries
- List of indoor arenas in Nordic countries
- List of largest shopping centres in the Nordic countries
- List of stadiums in the Nordic countries by capacity
- List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
- List of the most populous municipalities in the Nordic countries
- Nordek
- Nordic Athletics
- Nordic Council
- Nordic Innovation
- Nordic Journal of International Law
- Nordic Language Convention
- Nordic Strength
- Nordic countries
- Nordic cross flag
- Nordic energy market
- Nordic identity in Estonia
- Nordic integration
- Nordic law
- Nordic literature
- Nordic music
- Nordic swan
- Nordicism
- Norway
- Olsen Gang
- Scandinavian countries
- Secretary-General of the Nordic Council
- Subdivisions of the Nordic countries
- Sweden
- Synchronous grid of Northern Europe
- The Almost Nearly Perfect People
- Tursaansydän
- Urban areas in the Nordic countries
- Valhalla (youth portal)
Northern America
- Alaska
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Contiguous United States
- Greenland
- Leachia cyclura
- Northern America
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Regions of the Arctic
- Alaska
- Arctic Alaska
- Arctic Archipelago
- Arctic Cordillera
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
- British Arctic Territories
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Canadian Arctic tundra
- Far North (Russia)
- Finnmark
- Greenland
- Iceland
- Innuitian Region
- Inuvialuit
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- Komi Republic
- Lapland (Finland)
- Lapland (Sweden)
- Last Ice Area
- Magadan Oblast
- Murmansk Oblast
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Nord-du-Québec
- Nordland
- Norrbotten County
- North American Arctic
- Northern Canada
- Northern Norway
- Northwest Territories
- Nunatsiavut
- Nunavik
- Nunavut
- Perm Krai
- Russian Far East
- Sápmi
- Siberia
- Svalbard
- Troms og Finnmark
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Yukon
Special territories of the European Union
- Åland
- Aruba
- Büsingen am Hochrhein
- Campione d'Italia
- Ceuta
- Channel Islands
- Falkland Islands Dependencies
- Faroe Islands
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Greenland
- Heligoland
- Livigno
- Melilla
- Monastic community of Mount Athos
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Caledonia
- Outermost regions of the European Union
- Overseas collectivities of France
- Saint Barthélemy
- Special territories of members of the European Economic Area
- Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
States and territories established in 1979
- Aurora (province)
- Basque Country (autonomous community)
- Canton of Jura
- Catalonia
- Dagang, Tianjin
- Dovhyntsivskyi District
- Greenland
- Hof Aza Regional Council
- Independent State of Rainbow Creek
- Interim Government of Iran
- Iran
- Kiribati
- Kovdorsky District
- Loiri Porto San Paolo
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- People's Republic of Kampuchea
- Rehoboth (homeland)
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sant'Antonio di Gallura
- Southern Rhodesia
- State of Free Lebanon
- Talossa
- Villaperuccio
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia
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