Greenland

Greenland was an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark.

Location and Climate
Greenland is located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of Canada.  At 2,166,086 km2in area, Greenland is Earth’s largest island, over three-quarters of which was covered by the only ice sheet outside of Antarctica. The highest point on Greenland is Gunnbjørn Fjeld at 3,700 m (12,139 ft). The majority of Greenland, however, is less than 1,500 m (4,921 ft) in elevation. The average daily temperature of Nuuk, Greenland varies over the seasons from −8 to 7° C.

Fauna and Flora
The few land mammals in Greenland include polar bear, reindeer, musk ox, arctic fox, wolf, stoat, and arctic hare. There are dozens of species of seals and whales along the coast. Over 100 species of birds have been seen, and around 50 breed in Greenland.

There are very occasionally low forests of birch or willow and, in all, around 500 plant species.

History
Greenland has been inhabited off and on for at since 2500 BCE by people whose forebears migrated there from Canada. Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland, beginning in the 10th century, and Inuit peoples arrived in the 13th century. The Norse colonies disappeared in the late 15th century. In the early 18th century, Scandinavia and Greenland came back into contact with each other, and Denmark established sovereignty over the island.Though geographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Norway and Denmark since the 10th century

Greenland became a Danish colony in 1814, and a part of the Danish Realm in 1953 under the Constitution of Denmark. Since 21 June 2009, Greenland gradually assumed responsibility for policing, judicial system, company law, accounting, and auditing; mineral resource activities; aviation; law of legal capacity, family law and succession law; aliens and border controls; the working environment; and financial regulation and supervision, while the Danish government retained control of foreign affairs and defense. It also retained control of monetary policy, providing an initial annual subsidy of DKK 3.4 billion, that diminished over time as Greenland's economy was strengthened by income from the extraction of natural resources.

Modern Greenland
The north and eastern parts of Greenland are not part of any municipality, but the site of one of Earth's Super Nature Parks, Greenland Park.

Greenland today is dependent on seafood exports. The shrimp and fish industry is by far the largest income earner, followed by the public sector (including publicly owned enterprises and the municipalities) and then tourism. Gross domestic product per capita is equivalent to that of the average economies of the European region. With a population of under 100,000, it is the 2nd least densely populated region on Earth.