Greenland

Greenland

Greenland ranks 169th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind São Tomé and Príncipe, Réunion, and Nauru. Memorable people born in present day Greenland include Knud Rasmussen, Lars-Emil Johansen, and Jonathan Motzfeldt. Memorable people who died in Greenland include Leif Erikson, Erik the Red, and Alfred Wegener. Greenland has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many explorers, and writers.

Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are full citizens of Denmark and of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. It is the world's largest island, and lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland's Kaffeklubben Island, off the northern coast, is the world's northernmost undisputed point of land—Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was thought to be so until the 1960s. The capital and largest city is Nuuk. Economically, Greenland is heavily reliant on aid from Denmark, amounting to nearly half of the territory's total public revenue. Read more on Wikipedia