What On Earth Is Greenland?🇬🇱
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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.
What about the fish that is being exported to denmark?
@@malik87breaker what about it? That’s still accounted for in their GDP per capita
There's also the political factor, Denmark is paying because they want to inhabit the island with Danish citizens for political reasons. Without people living there, they would have no real claim to the island. And the Greenlanders can't survive on fishing alone. So, either Denmark have to pay people to live there or almost all of them would move to Copenhagen.
@@ingvarhallstrom2306 logically that makes sense
You sure it includes the subsidy? That info usually isn’t included in GDP. And if you added $600MM to the $3.1B, it would move their GDP per capita to $63k which would exactly match Denmark. So that seems more right if that is the purpose of the subsidy.
And even if you took $600MM off their $3.1B GDP, the GDP per capita drops from $53k to $43k which is still pretty good… top 25 in the world.
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.
I LIVE in NUUK
I want to go
I love living in icy climates!
Nookie in Nuuk
@stalin- "nookie" only takes place in the summer when the male and female sexual apparatus thaws out .
ME TOO!!
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!
It's ice cap
@@andrebruce2371 ice cap covers about 79% of the island, so 21% is ice free.
There are now about 5 planted forests in Greenland, I think Narsarsuaq Arboretum is the largest one (150 hectares).
@@andrebruce2371 *ice crap
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
I would love to visit
@انسان no
Base of what I saw in the video , there no any car there? Only kayaking?
@@janahnavales Greenland do have cars💀
Mars
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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!)
The man who discovered Greenland was the world's first estate agent.
@@anonUK And at the time, there was cause for Erik to be enthusiastic about the place.
You are right. That was not any kind of "marketing campaign;" not only did they see a green land, the
world's climate was gen-
really warmer.
Did you know that in the south, architects drew up the blueprints of the first igloo? They have the drawings in a museum somewhere.
You can find all drawings...the foundations, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC there.
@whysoserious702 well, I wouldn't say the world was warmer in general. Since we are currently warmer than we've ever been in the past 125000 years, based on an IPCC report.
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.
They did that in June
@@gabriellescur4085 I know it was signed in June 2022, but I haven't seen any proof it has been ratified by the two parliaments yet. There is a sentence on Wikipedia that indicates that it has been ratified, but when I check the source, it doesn't actually say that.
If Canada doesn't build a city of at least the size of Anchorage there, it was all for nothing lol
that happens a while back
Another fun fact: Greenland stretches further North, West, South, and East than Iceland.
Well Iceland is tiny 🙃
Not fun at all don't know why people say "fun fact" kinda stu]id
Another fun fact: Greenland has mostly ice and Iceland is mostly green.
@@AlvinSeville1 not in winter
So does Russia and Canada...
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.
I spent a year there. Was a blast! Had a great time. Thule AB
Couldve showen the beauty so much more beautiful than people think Greenland over norway for me
Long been on my bucket list, and I'll finally get to go in June of '24!
why tho. there is literally nothing
@@mike15. where you see nothing, others see wonders.
@@ia8018 bruh there are a million square miles of just ice and snow... icecold, isolated from the world.. and a few hundred ppl living in one small town..
Go for it mate and enjoy every second of it
@@mike15. that sounds interesting actually. You are wrong of course, but even if you were right, I would still wanted to visit.
Your content is so engaging! Thanks for providing such valuable and interesting geography lessons. 🌍❤
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.
You are absolutely correct. Temperatures in Nuuk can easily go below minus 15 in the winter, and above plus 15 in the summer.
"Greenland" is a name. It is the name of an island, a very particular island. The one called Greenland.
Thank you Kamala. That clears up a lot.
@@chuckinhouston9952 You spelled "neddy laddy" wrong.
I spilled a lot of green dye on the ice cap. Now it can truly be called Greenland. 😆
The way the earth is heating up soon this country will make sense
Greenland of all places on this planet is about to take the biggest hit from "Mother Nature" in the coming months. I wrote a poem some years ago once again around the same time as the disaster movie also called "Greenland"
The biggest problem lays beneath the ground and that is volcanic activity which sadly alters the future but not just this Island. It will in time affect the "Americas" and whilst that might sound in sane it will. There is a number of issues that at first, doesn't seem worthy of worrying about, until one key event unlocks all the others leaving us very little time and because of its location it is near impossible to deal with.
We normally associate a "Chain Reaction" with nuclear bombs, but this is on a totally different level. This grand design is purely "Mother Nature" and it was not the place I would expect such drama to take place. With the Permafrost melting this has the potential to escalate global warming by shifting it up a gear. The other present danger is the release of the next pandemic due to the thawing of the ice.
The Islands population albeit small will have to flee, which sees an increase refugees and the impact that will have on neighboring countries, Europe being at the top of the list. It was about 3 years ago, when I wrote the poem which troubled me at the time.
milk, eggs, onions and chicken have the exact same cost in denmark, though the prices made a big change 2 years ago, so if that data is older than 1 year, then its much more expensive.
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.
Thank you for correcting the blatant misinformation in this video
Great video, Greenland is a place I knew practically nothing about
It gets alot colder than -10 in Nuuk haha
yeah i found it hard to believe it didnt get in the -30s+
@@rebel2809 It doesn't really go into the -30s - at least that is VERY rare. However, it is not uncommon to see it go below minus 15, and some of the coldest temperatures during the winter in Nuuk is in the minus twenties.
Parts of Siberia gets colder - Yakust anyone?
Yakutsk is insanely cold. We can't manage those temperatures in Greenland.
@@johanneabelsen1644 Yes but Yakutsk is hot in summer.
Siberia is continental, the coastal regions of Greenland will have the climate tempered to a degree by the ocean.
I really hate the story that Eric the Red lied by calling it Greenland, because I understand that the climate was quite different back then, to the point where Newfoundland warranted the name Vinland. Indeed, at the time, the southern reaches of Greenland were green enough to support a colony, and I imagine that the name was only intended to apply to that part, and it was only much later that the name was applied to the entire island, none of which, by that time, was still green enough.
It was green, he didn't lie
@@CTJM_Middleton Climate changes. It has done so since the earth first formed, and it shall continue to do so until the Sun dies, and everything is darkness for the rest of eternity.
Southern Greenland is still very green during the summer and also part of spring and autumn
@@Reitzel996 almost all of Greenland's coast gets green too
Greenland is not a dependency. It is an integral part of the Kingdom of Denmark, albeit self-governing and has the right to independence if a referendum is held and they vote yes.
Who freaking cares the point is, it’s not independent
@@jackpowell8864 I wasn't passing comment on whether it should or shouldn't be, I am making the point that Greenland is not a dependent entity to the sovereign state that is the Kingdom of Denmark.
There is a massive difference in status. So, Greenland 'freaking cares'. There's no need for impertinence.
For the record, I absolutely support Greenland's full statehood, there is no logical reason in my mind for continued control of any European nation over anywhere else in the world.
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
Greenland is Iceland. Iceland is Greenland. In other words, Greenland is like a sheet of ice topographically and Iceland was self named to fool people into believing the land wasn’t worth invading even though it is much greener than Greenland.
I've heard that Greenland 🇬🇱 got it's name, because it's discoverer landed at the Southern tip of the island in the middle of Summer, when it was actually quiet green (There's even a forest there - not all of Greenland is a barren wasteland, there are farms in Southern Greenland as well!!!). 😍🇵🇭
Correction = Greenland is a country, but not a nation, because it is part of the Danish Kingdom.
Where did you get your temperatures from? I have personally experienced both a lot higher and a lot lower temperatures, -20 degrees C is not unusual in winter.
Those are average monthly temperatures. Daily variance will result in temperatures higher and lower than the monthly average.
Wish we could have colorful houses like that in the US. Instead we have drab boring vinyl siding everywhere.
@@dlight9849 you do realize you can paint your own house right.... You do know this right
@@dark12ain If you lived in the US you would that HOAs don't allow you to change the color of vinyl siding.
My subdivision only allows beige.
The subdivision to the south only allows beige.
The subdivision to the north only allows beige.
The subdivision to the west only allows beige.
The subdivision to the east only allows white.
@@dlight9849 yeah and that's why I will NEVER live in a HOA community. All those rules and fees for what? To keep the property value high? Ehh no thanks HOA are the scum of this country with no real backing
It doesn’t make sense to do total land and total population. Most km2 have zero people living on it. This makes large geographic countries, even Russia with 140million people seem “sparsely populated”, however most people in these countries will live in just a few regions that no more sparsely populated than many other countries.
They were 105 cities and towns in Greenland and Danish cut off 55 and now only 50 dialects on Greenland
"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.
The winter temperatures are a lot more mild than I expected.
Its not accurate it gets alot colder
Winter temperatures for most of Greenland is -40s to -50s.
They are also not that telling. They are the averages. It is definitely not uncommen to see minus 15 and below during the winter in Nuuk. And further north it easily goes well below that, some places reaching below minus 50.
@@tadhgmccain7785 No it is not. Only in the very north it becomes that cold - and only a couple of months. I lived in the VERY north (Qaanaaq) for one winter. We did not go below -38
@@PEPevents007 I've just looked at the charts now for Greenland and a large part of it is showing -30s now in mid may.
I've always wondered why it was called Greenland 👍
Gotta love those Viking trolls
Because it's pretty green in the summer, and even so in Vikings times when Greenland was warmer than nowadays.
@@ia8018go to south greenland. In the summer. You will see why :D
Then don't take the explanation given in this video as a fact. It is called Greenland because it is green in the southern part where the "vikings" settled.
North América 🇬🇱🇵🇲🇨🇦
I’m gonna try and visit in March
Correction = Greenland 🇬🇱 is a country, but not a Nation, because it is part of the Danish (Denmark 🇩🇰) Kingdom.
Where did you get your Temperatures from? I have personally experienced both a lot higher and a lot lower temperatures, -20 degrees Celsius is not unusual Winter. ❄⛄😍🇵🇭
How do you know it was Inuit hunters from Greenland and not Canada that invented kayaks?
It's depending where you are to design qajaq.
It was from Illegal Columbians fleeing Cocaine Cartels in the 5th Century AD
Greenland should actually join Canada since there is common culture in parts of Canada. Greenland had been considering it, and Iceland was considering to adopt Canadian loonie as currency.
Inuit from Siberia, Alaska and Nunavut yeah we all came from Siberia
Greenland, Canada, USA and Mexico join together and become the most powerful country ever. North America.
@Einherjar DK Undoubtedly the Danish government would not just abandon them and offer them some sort of residency or citizenship.
@Einherjar DK Apparently you chose the route of being a douchecanoe. Or so it comes off in your comment. Why don’t you be more specific in what you mean and what you are thinking about when you say “lose the connection to”?
@Einherjar DK You replied like a little twat. I asked you to elaborate on what you were specifically inferring in your query, but you obviously cannot do that. Go away little Dane. Shoo. Eejit.
you forgot to mention suicide
That was the most death-rate we have, but when the communication with smartphones and internet has made it lower, I feel.
The 90s is the depression periods, it has Decline, but still hight though.
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@@KokoroKatsura so true
Should just be called by its inuit name.
First to live of the land as owning land isn't their way of culture, and are the majority are its inhabitants
I’m for it, our English name makes -5% sence.
"Inuits" is redundant: "Inuit" is plural! (The singular is "Inuk.")
Or call them Indians
5:22 this is not true! longyearbyen, the capital of svalbard, is much further north!
svalbard is not a country, but at the same time neither is greenland so
@@rebel2809 I know that, but if he's naming Greenland in the list then you might as well just name any territory with a capital
@@rebel2809 Greenland is absolutely a country what are you talking about
@@slothyyedm yeah thats fair
@@sofus47 you're funny
I want to go there and Iceland in one trip!
Even en Greenland women live longer than men 😅 By now we all agree that it's a universal true, right?
It is factually true women outlive men 😅. An interesting thing too is there are more men than women on the island, so some do marry foreign women from abroad with Philippines and Thailand being the largest
So what
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN It's an interesting detail. Apparently there are many more men than women there and yet... statistically, women live longer there. Not interesting in your opinion... that's ok. YOU DIDN'T REALLY NEED TO TELL ME 😅
Greenland's flag: Poland on the outside Indonesia in the inside 🇵🇱+🇮🇩=🇬🇱
It’s the “Frozen Rising Sun”- F U, YT
5:35 “ have you ever went kayaking?” the Internet Grammar Police Pedant says please change to “have you ever ‘been’ kayaking” not ‘went’ kayaking ….😂. Great video though and if that narration is an AI,then it is impressive.
Greenland 🇬🇱 🤝 Denmark 🇩🇰 🤝 USA 🇺🇲
I live
In green land
Last year..
What I love the most
Of this country??
Is full of green..?
The water is green
The sky is green
The grass is green
The trees is green
The food is green
The animals is green
The soil is green
The building is green
The air is green
Alllll is green..
I’m just wondering how the Inuit of Greenland made kayaks, does Greenland have trees?
America have a lot of trees and most trees they used taken from the sea
In the old days, they didn't have wood, instead they got driftwood from Canada, tho mostly on the east side:)
Btw im from Greenland😅
In general, Greenland doesn't have any trees. If you count naturally occuring trees, I think there are like 7 or 8. I've seen a book by some guy who travelled Greenland to visit all the trees and write a book about it. However, there are a small plantation of trees in southern Greenland, but that is "artificial".
Kayaks has been made by driftwood and animal skin.
July/August only 10c there? i would like to live there! Temperatures in Serbia now are over 40c! Our country turned into Africa!
Im in Greenland rn
Those average winter temperatures look pretty mild to me!!
It's colder in the prairie region of Canada
Then read : The last Greenland Viking .
It is worth very very much .
Greenland
Welcome to Concacaf Greenland 💚💚💚
I am from Norway. I was in Grenland last year. I was flying from Oslo (Norway) - Reykjavik (Iceland) - Nuuk (Greenland)
*Denmark is part of Schengen, EU and Council of Europe
*Greenland is NOT part of Schengen, NOT part of EU and their autonomous hovedmeny is not members of Council of Europa, but at the same time the goverment of Kingdom of Denmark is a part of Council of Europe, and since greenland is under the kingdom its KIND OF politically a part of europe but still a geographic part of North America
But since is not located in Europe, and their autonomous goverment is not a part of Council of Europe, and since they are not Schengen members, I woulden’t see them as complete politically european either. They have a different phone code, a different internet code, and other agreements on international call’s on phonecall prices between european countries
If you travle from Norway or Iceland to Denmark, there is no passport controll, just sometimes random control’s. But traveling from Iceland to Greenland I had to enter passport control before I enter the plane, and also when I arrived. All this got me a feeling of not beeing in Europe
This is an introverts heaven shoot I need to go look up rent price!
I originally thought Greenland was part of Europe then i heard it was part of Europe and part of North America.
Fahrenheit and miles please 🙏. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA U.S.A.
Goo kha
Feels weird to see Iceland is green and Greenland is ice an ice cap.
Fun fact, it's not melting, in fact the opposite...
If it gets green sea levels would rise
Not fun at all
While I enjoyed the video immensely, I have a completely unrelated question - can anyone tell me what is the background music?
It's Chopins 9 th concerto in R minor with the main movement of GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
The video begins with satie's Gnossienne No. 1!
A VERY VERY MISUNDERSTOOD PLACE IS THIS GREENLAND
Danes seeing the title WTF
I would love to add Greenland to my country count
Does it have any geothermal?
No but they do wear Thermal Underwear
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN lol
Can you please tell me what the background-music is?
FREEBIRD
where is the mystery part?
just an eskimo passing by
It's climate is better than the Canadian islands just west of it. That is something I guess.
Greenland is the ice wall.
89% Inuit, but none of the official languages are Inuit languages...
It’s a continent.
(We must take a stand against the tyrants
who call Greenland an island)
Why would they lie?
I dunno probably dinosaurs.
Went there once, don't care to go back.
i live there
Hoo!
you know the video is propoganda when you see the disclaimr below the video.
Fortunately, with warming, Greenland will actually become green.
Actually, greenlands ice mass is near a 10 year high. Been a stellar year for ice advance!!!
@@CTJM_Middleton How so? Why is Greenland remaining a desolate wasteland of ice positive? They've begun farming there. Insects will arrive followed by flowers and forests, and the migration of animals. It will be naturally terraformed.
@@anthonymorris5084 global warming
Paying more $£ to world elitists won't stop global warming either
@@bradyryan5105 Agreed. No policy that the climate movement has demanded will prevent any of this or keep people safe.
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They do not produce oil neither minerals.
Well obviously cause it's mostly ice like Alaska.
@@justinarzola4584 Is Alaska mostly ice?
It’s not
Im from greenland and some of the information you are talking about like the gdp is not actually correct because the danish take the majority of the money and the culture is not European but just danish there is nothing european about Greenland and it’s culture is Inuit.
And Greenland is not mysterious and officially Nuuk is the most northern capital in the world since we have our own flag people culture political system and are still a part of Denmark because of economical benefits. 🇬🇱
This video made by AI? (asking for a friend)
Nuuk, is a real capital, it’s just not a national capital.
Pretty obvious this guy based his video off Geography Now
Would be great if Greenlanders could free themselves from the Danish Imperialist occupation of their island.
Yeah it's sad some countries like Greenland and French Guiana are still controlled by foreign overlords of the past, and they say colonialism dosent still exist.
considering greenland almost completely relies on funding from denmark, and the fact that any soldiers positioned there is actually in the danish military, it is beyond unlikely that the island would become independent anytime soon
I hope Greenland can become self-sufficient so this happens. It would be cool to have a country in the Americas where the native language is the official and most spoken language
@prehistoricpostmodernist8281he said in the video that 89% of the people in the capital are native.. doubt it’s any different in rural areas
@@rebel2809 in ww2 Greenland entering the war, British violated Greenlands neutrality by destroying Norwegian weather station on Greenland. 15 native hunters volunteer for mobilise. Allied with USA and they destroy 3 German weather station's Greenland had 1 casualty and 1 German casualty.
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The flag is a pokeball
The USA should definitely purchase the country. For Tourism, Skiing, Oil, and passage to the rest of the world (Very close to Europe and even Asia.
And then let china buy usa 😁
🇺🇸needsGREENLAND
“White land” lol I don’t think that’d work out very good 🤣🤣
i love green lannnndddddddddddd
...2:20...you think -5 to -10 Celsius is pretty chilly?
😂
Tell me your not Canadian without saying you're not Canadian.
The windchill where I’m at the last couple days has been -30°C and colder.
Ok then … snowland..... what a perfect name 😂😂😂😂😂😂
"What on Earth is Greenland?"
It's an island on Earth, I reckon'. 😆
So you clogged comments section with a lame joke????
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Just bein' honest
Why did Nerf not Greenland? Everybody knows Greenland.
Maps are liars
0:20 Norwegian*
Both can be argued. He became an outlaw in Norway because of murder and was considered dead according to the law, when he settled on Iceland.
I guess he was neither Norwegian or Icelandic when he arrived on Greenland :)
Have you ever 'gone' kayaking before, not, have you ever 'went' kayaking. Poor grammar.
The maps are wrong on so many levels