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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.
The population is concentrated mainly on the southwest coast, and the rest of the island is sparsely populated. Three-quarters of Greenland is covered by the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica. With a population of 56,583 (2022), [25] Greenland is the least densely populated region in the world. [26]
This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2021. The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk , the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants. [ 1 ]
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
Nuuk (Greenlandic pronunciation: ⓘ; Danish: Nuuk, [1] formerly Godthåb [ˈkʌtˌhɔˀp]) [2] is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark.
In Greenland, the reindeer population peaked in the 1990s, but is now declining. Experts estimate that there are around 75,000 reindeer remaining in Greenland. Norway.
Greenland has a 1.2-kilometer-long (0.75 mi) border with Canada on Hans Island. [1] A sparse population is confined to small settlements along certain sectors of the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second-largest ice sheet. Greenland sits atop the Greenland plate, a subplate of the North American Plate.
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