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Greenlanders, also called Greenlandics or Greenlandic people, [9] are the people of the Danish Realm of the autonomous territory of Greenland. As of 2024, Greenland's population stands at 55,840 and is in decline. [ 1 ]
People of Greenland are both citizens of Denmark and citizens of the European Union. Approximately 89 percent of Greenland's population of 57,695 is Greenlandic Inuit, or 51,349 people as of 2012. [9] Ethnographically, they consist of three major groups: the Kalaallit of west Greenland, who speak Kalaallisut
The Inughuit were first contacted by Europeans in 1818, [2] when John Ross led an expedition into their territory. Ross dubbed them "Arctic Highlanders". They are believed to have previously lived in total isolation, to the point of being unaware of other humans, and are cited as one of the rare non-agricultural societies to live without armed feuds or warfare, a state that continued after ...
Below the ice there is a series of canyons, the biggest called Greenland’s Grand Canyon which was formed by flowing rivers of water from the repeated cycle of ice melting and new ice forming. [92] Near the coast elevations rise suddenly and steeply. [93] The ice flows generally to the coast from the centre of the island.
As 84% of Greenland's landmass is covered by the Greenland ice sheet, Kalaallit live in three regions: Polar, Eastern, and Western. In the 1850s some Canadian Inuit migrated to Greenland and joined the Polar Inuit communities. [9] The Eastern Inuit, or Tunumiit, live in the area with the mildest climate, a territory called Ammassalik.
The population of Greenland consists of Greenlandic Inuit (including mixed-race people), Danish Greenlanders and other Europeans and North Americans. The Inuit population makes up approximately 85–90% of the total (2009 est.). 6,792 people from Denmark live in Greenland, which is 12% of its total population.
Greenland officials at the time slammed the proposal, saying the island, home to approximately 56,000 people, was not for sale. Danish officials also balked at the idea.
The evidence suggested that Inuit descend from the Birnirk of Siberia, who through the Thule culture expanded into northern Canada and Greenland, where they genetically and culturally completely replaced the Indigenous Dorset people some time after 1300 AD. [182] Inuit people tend to have the dry variant of human earwax. [183]