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, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, and Hans Enoksen. Memorable people who died in Greenland include Alfred Wegener, Erik the Red, and Leif Erikson. 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 of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the larger of two autonomous territories within the kingdom, the other being the Faroe Islands; the citizens of both territories are full citizens of Denmark. As Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union, citizens of Greenland are European Union citizens. The capital and largest city of Greenland is Nuuk. Greenland lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the world's largest island, and is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world—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. Economically, Greenland is heavily reliant on aid from Denmark, amounting to near half of the territory's total public revenue. Read more on Wikipedia