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[pollutingpenguin]

Their GDP per capita is high because Denmark gives them $600mill a year to ensure they have have a similar standard of living as to the Danes.

[rvrrunner]

In 1974 I spent a year in Greenland with the US Air Force at Sondrestrom AB now listed as Kangerlussuaq. I had a pilot's license so got to fly a private aero club airplane into the fjords and by the glaciers in the local areal. Saw herds of Musk Ox and Caribou. Was not to happy during the freezing total darkness of winter but the summer was fantastic. Flew on a supply airplane and landed on the ice cap at one of the radar sites and the east coast at Tasiilaq. Beautiful but rugged country.

[MusicalRadiation]

The whole country has a tundra (ET) climate except for just two spots that have a subarctic (Dfc) climate: the Kangerlussuaq fjord, and the Qinngua Valley. The latter one contains the only natural forest on Greenland!

[nicholasharvey]

I've heard that Greenland got its name because its discoverer landed at the southern tip of the island in the middle of summer, when it was actually quite green (there's even a forest there-- not all of Greenland is a barren wasteland, there are farms in southern Greenland as well!)

[sadiariya]

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[eckligt]

I would add that Denmark and Canada are about to ratify an agreement that would see them split Hans Island down the middle. This will give the two countries a land border.

[manniaraq]

As a Greenlandic person, maybe if y'all stop focusing on ICE and SNOW you will see the Green part of the Greenland. In summer every land/Islands are Green, especially a land without people

[AJvideoshare]

Another fun fact: Greenland stretches further North, West, South, and East than Iceland.

[DougKahn]

I spent a year there. Was a blast! Had a great time. Thule AB

[starexgo]

Couldve showen the beauty so much more beautiful than people think Greenland over norway for me

[alexwilliamns]

2:28 This looks like the average highs and lows of each month, not the range. It likely gets significantly colder and significantly warmer than these numbers.

[robthetraveler]

Long been on my bucket list, and I'll finally get to go in June of '24!

[JacKanapie]

Great video, Greenland is a place I knew practically nothing about

[dlight]

Wish we could have colorful houses like that in the US. Instead we have drab boring vinyl siding everywhere.

[neddyladdy]

"Greenland" is a name. It is the name of an island, a very particular island. The one called Greenland.

[KhaoticDeterminism]

A proud Nation of Inuit. Everything the Arctic Ocean touches. 😊😊

At least that’s what Caligo tells me. Her and the Nesoi. Islands are a primordial force of nature. They force development of consciousness and each island has its own personality.

[javierramirez]

It must be a city underneath that ice like the pne Chile explorers found in antartica and the one the pentagon took over forbiden anyone but them to get in

[scottishwarrior]

The way the earth is heating up soon this country will make sense

[juliansmith]

"The nearest country to Greenland is Canada, to the west and southwest across Nares Strait and Baffin Bay." It's actually a little closer, across the border on Hans Island.

[Reitzel]

It's great to see a video about the amazing country that Greenland is, trying to educate the world on it. Unfortunately there are a lot of inaccuracies in your video, so for you and especially for all other who might view this video, please be aware of these:

1. The name of Greenland DOES NOT come from some marketing trick. It doesn't. It's wrong. It is called Greenland because it is actually green in the area where Erik the red settled. That's it.
2. Greenland IS a country. It is not a sovereign nation, but it is a country. The most correct translation of it to english would be "Autonomous constituent country".
3. Oil and gas ARE NOT inustries in Greenland - also, mineral extraction is not that big yet, construction and tourism are much bigger at the moment.
4. While the stats for the temperatures are correct, they are averages. It is not uncommon to see temperatures below minus 15 degrees celsius in Nuuk during the winter, and in the summer it often reaches well above the numbers shown.
5. There are NO roads between cities - not "virtually no roads". That is unless you count Qinngorput and Nussuaq as their own cities, but they are generally considered to be part of Nuuk. Also, there is an ATV track/dirt path between Sisimiut and Kangerlussuaq.
6. You are also not correct about the reason why there are no roads between cities. It is much more complex than that, but it is not because it would require a ferry sevice - something which there actually is. The reason is more because of the incredible distances between cities, the culture and history of the country, the difficulties in acutally building such, and the lack of ressources.
7. Not all towns/settlements are along the coast, depending on how you define it. Kangerlussuaq, the airport city, is located in the bottom of one of the deepest/longest fjords, which technically puts it on a coast, but it is not considered as such - at least not in Greenland.
8. While rent prices are higher in London, that is also not a great comparison seeing as London has some of the highest rent prices in the world. The rent prices in Greenland are also quite high.

Source: being from Denmark and having lived in Greenland while working in the government.