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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). [1] In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people , the proto- Inuit group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century.
Blok P, once Greenland's largest building and home to about 1% of its population, was demolished on October 19, 2012. Greenland has an estimated population of 55,840. [ 2 ] As of 2012, the total life expectancy was 71.25 years, with males having a life expectancy of 68.6 years and females with 74.04 years.
[13] Today, most Greenlanders are bilingual speakers of Kalaallisut and Danish and most trace their lineage to the first Inuit that came to Greenland. The vast majority of ethnic Greenlanders reside in Greenland or elsewhere in the Danish Realm, primarily Denmark proper (approximately 20,000 Greenlanders reside in Denmark proper).
Greenfield is a fictional city created in the sandbox video game Minecraft. As of May 2022, the city is one-fourth complete and has a size of 20 million blocks. [2] The city was started by Minecraft user THEJESTR in August 2011. [3] [4] As of April 2022, there are approximately 1.3 million downloads of the city map. [5]
Danish Greenlanders are ethnic Danes residing in Greenland and their descendants. Danish born people are a minority ethnic group in Greenland, accounting for around 7% of the territory's population. [1] Greenlandic Inuit (including mixed-race persons) make up approximately 85%–90% of the total (2009 estimate).
There is ambiguity regarding numbers of Greenlandic people in Denmark due to the nature of the Greenlandic-Danish citizenship. As of the 1953 Danish constitution, Greenland was made a constituency of Denmark and therefore Greenlanders were given Danish citizenship. [12] [13] This allows Greenlandic people to move freely between Greenland and ...
The culture of Greenland has much in common with Greenlandic Inuit tradition, as the majority of people are descended from Inuit. Many people still go ice fishing and there are annual dog-sled races in which everyone with a team participates. However, Greenland has now become somewhat of a tourist attraction.
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.