12 Facts about Greenland That You Might Not Know

Greenland is without a doubt the destination in the Arctic that sees the fewest tourists in the summer and is also the one that the least amount of people are familiar with. It is also one of the most fascinating locations in the world. Greenland is enormously enormous and incredibly white, two features that undoubtedly both contribute to the attractiveness and make it more than a bit frightening to plan a visit. If you have ever taken even a cursory look at a global map, you are bound to be aware of these facts. Greenland is an Arctic conservation area comparable to only a few others, both on land and within the oceans that shape it, and it is populated by a historic Inuit culture that has developed to the rhythm of its own drum. However, size and ice aren't the only things that Greenland has going for it; there is so much more to it than that.
Before you start making travel plans to Greenland, you should familiarize yourself with the following really fun facts about Greenland. Take a look:
1. Greenland Really Was Green
Why is Greenland still named Greenland if it is always frozen over? Greenland is a white Arctic country because of all the snow and ice that blankets it. If it's not green, then why is it called "Greenland"? Well, this surely is one of the most interesting facts about Greenland that you might not know. But don’t worry, the story isn’t that complex. The murderer Erik the Red of Iceland, who was sent there, is responsible for the island's unusual moniker. He chose the name "Greenland" in the belief that it would encourage immigration. South Greenland (where Erik the Red made his home) is surprisingly lush during the summer months. According to researchers, however, Greenland was a lush greenery over 2.5 million years ago. New research shows that ancient earth was chilled kept for millions of years, buried beneath roughly two miles of ice.
2. World’s Largest Island
Greenland is a huge island, around the area of Western Europe. Remember that it is the world's 12th biggest nation while making plans for your trip. When additional islands in the vicinity are included in, the total land surface of Greenland rises to 2.16 million square kilometers (836,330 sq miles). An arctic ice extends over about 80 percent of whole land area. While the ice-free region is small compared to the rest of the planet, it is nevertheless around the area of Sweden. Among the world's least populous nations, its 56,480 residents make it a rarity in terms of population density.
3. Greenland is an Autonomous country
Another fun fact about Greenland is that in spite of being a part of Denmark, Greenland operates independently as a sovereign nation. Greenland has really been historically and culturally linked to Europe for the better part of a thousand years, despite its North American location. Denmark has had settlements in Greenland as of 1721; in 1953, the nation officially became a part of Denmark. After being awarded Home Rule by Denmark in 1979, Greenland was then inaugurated into extended Self Rule in 2009, providing even more authority and responsibility to the Greenlandic government. Greenland will be able to take up additional duties from Denmark in accordance with the new framework as and when it is ready to do so.
4. Greenland has the lowest population density of almost any country on the planet.
Despite its size, the city is home to barely 56,000 people. That translates to a population density of only 0.03 individuals per square kilometer. There is plenty of space to be alone even in the nation's capital, as the population is not fairly spread out and no one lives in the great majority of the island.
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[@freeagent8225]

One fact that I have never forgotten is the hospitality of the Greenlanders. After visiting 63 countries, these people have helped me the most.

[@Medietos]

Are you quite nice yourself too, then? Did you make friends easily and get to stay with them? could you help them w alcoholism/soul problems? Are priests any good for soul-care?

[@freeagent8225]

@@Medietos I was nice in the 90 's, people have been good to me it helps being alone.

[@nielsjosefsen431]

​@@MedietosWe are doing it by ourself thank you, these last few decades. The drinking has been onnthe decline. To the point where the Danish has not drink more per capita than we do. And mostly the onee who drink are the tourists in hotels, here in Greenland. Yes there are those who drink alcohol, but the majority of the drinkers are the tourists, the craftmen that comes to Greenland from abroad, and mainly they are from Denmark. That is a factual reality, backed by mumers dones by Danmarks Statistik.

[@BK-qp8zp]

We were stationed in Iceland in the early 80's. When flying home to the States, we flew over Greenland. The mountains were not only massive, but extremely high, as well. We were flying at 46,000 feet and it felt like we could reach out and touch the mountains!

[@yvonneclarkson5500]

A few years ago we went to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. It was Greenland weekend. Greenlanders had come to sell their wares and have a good time. They were incredibly nice people and certainly knew how to party!

[@Yehyeh2]

We also have a community in Jamaica name Tivoli garden😂😂

[@yodorob]

The chain of ice-free, inhabited areas along parts of the Greenland coast could be like a cold-weather version of the Out Islands of the Bahamas (which I just recently visited), in which boats outnumber people and cars are mainly used just within the villages and towns. (Although at least some of the Bahamian Out Islands, unlike Greenland, do have roads connecting the towns.)

[@Tenashus.88]

Greenland seems like an interesting place 😊

[@user-bv6pm7rc8d]

Nice video🎉🎉

[@Hawkeye2001]

Thanks for the previews.

[@rvrrunner]

I spent a year at Sondrestrom AB, Greenland just above the Artic Circle in 1974 while in the US Air Force. Saw all the unusual sites of Greenland; Northern Lights, Musk Ox, Caribou, months of darkness, months of daylight, etc. I was an Air Traffic Controller and at that time we controlled ALL aviation between North America and Europe with only 3 guys in a small room. This was well before GPS. A great experience although winter was not my favorite time to be there.

[@joechang8696]

note: 2.5Mya was about when the Isthmus of Panama formed. Prior to that, the warm equatorial ocean current flowed east to west into the gulf of Mexico and then out to the Pacific. Afterwards, it goes back out the strait of Florida, into the north Atlantic. I believe all this warm water increases evaporation, and subsequent snowfall at the high northern latitudes. When the Milankovitch cycles are aligned, this is sufficient to persist snow through the summer, hence the northern hemisphere ice age started ~2.5Mya with intermittent inter-glacials

[@wardarcade7452]

There's also the still unsolved mystery of what became of the original Norse Viking settlements in Greenland. While Eric the Red first established the earliest known settlement in 986AD, by the 1200s AD, due to a mini-Ice Age and the Black Plague making communication and trade with Greenland less and less viable, it became more isolated and cut off from the outside world. The last confirmed record of Norse life in Greenland came in 1408 AD when an Icelandic bachelor married a Norse Greenlandic widow in the tiny stone church in Hvalsey then the two immediately moved away to to his home in Iceland and would have a family of their own. Because some Icelandic wedding guests wrote about this wedding, THAT is why this record of the event would survive. However when the Danes decided to resume colonization of this gigantic island in the early 1700's, they discovered the Viking settlements had been completely abandoned with no sign of what had happened to the last Norse Greenlanders though it's likely that some biracial Inuit Greenlanders may be descended from them!

[@oneshothunter9877]

We came. We saw. We conquered. Lol

[@johanneabelsen1644]

They went back again, since the climate got colder. They could not do their farming. AND they refused to live like the Inuit did, because they considered us to be a lesser race than themselves.

[@wardarcade7452]

@@johanneabelsen1644 While that's a good probability, there are no known surviving written records of anyone known to have been a Norse Greenlander having re-settled elsewhere.

[@wardarcade7452]

@@johanneabelsen1644 Maybe not all of them. There was an Icelandic seafarer called . .Jon Greenlander who ventured to Greenland in 1540 who found no living Norse Greenlanders but a single deceased Norse Greenlander lying facedown- but wearing animal skins. Who this poor soul was, what became of his parents and grandparents and other generations spending the whole lives entirely isolated from the outside world, whether he was among the last (if not the very last ) of the Norse Greenlanders and what if any interaction he may have had with the Greenland Natives are but a few mysteries of many of the fate of the Norse Greenlanders.

[@veronicajensen7690]

@@johanneabelsen1644 there is no base for that myth, it was once thought the Vikings never learned to eat seal, whale meat ect. like the Inuits and only lived on what they got from Norway and grew themselves in Greenland but we now know they actually did eat a similar diet, they also interacted with Inuits, sometimes they traded but other times they fought , one reason they left is they used to trade whale tusk, but as Ivory became a popular trade nobody wanted whale tusk, another reason is it became to difficult and dangerous to sail in the area as the ice increased, like in other places first the young disappeared due to lack of work and then they all went

[@stevesyncox9893]

Good stuff.

[@dawninilwin5863]

Thanks

[@Suntreecity]

I was expecting something about polar bear too,❤❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing amazing facts

[@rajkiranbondala4665]

good explination

[@danieltoth722]

+1 fun fact: Greenland actually has a forest. It's not big, but I was very surprised when I heard that for the first time.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Artificial forest.

[@rais1953]

​​@@oneshothunter9877No it's natural. Qinngua Valley, also called Qinnquadalen, Kanginsap Qinngua and Paradisdalen, is a valley in southern Greenland, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the nearest settlement of Tasiusaq, Kujalleq. The valley has the only natural forest in Greenland and is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long.

[@swissnature4k]

Beautiful scenery! So different from the Swiss nature

[@starfox8006]

Imagine whats frozen under the ice, ancient UFOs

[@sizwemlangeni9158]

So this video has more views than Greenland's population.

[@rais1953]

In southern Greenland the sun does set in summer but only briefly and twilight remains. There is no full darkness. North of the Arctic Circle there is midnight sun in summer and no sunrise in winter.

[@philipbennett4208]

What is supposed to be SHOCKING about this?

[@rais1953]

Just the fact that it's so different from where most of us live I think.

[@mq2311]

Fun Fact..the Iceberg that Titanic hit to it..that was also from Greenland...

[@Medietos]

so is it not over-fished there yet? So glad in that case! And do ice-bears still have ice and food, not having to eat their young from startvar´tion due to lack of ice....?(Like the film footage show)

[@hansrasmussen5023]

..we run the pumps, from the last predatory fisheries, are working on the remains of the fishing aids that were once there. only because shrimp eat leftover fish, there are still shrimp in the water, but we fight over the last fish with the tourists and their tour operators, who are either new immigrants from Denmark or 1st generation Greenlanders who are the children of Danish craftsmen. the locals, yes, they are being pushed into unemployment and poverty they didn't have before. the dry land itself may seem untouched, but what lies beneath the surface, that is something that is not spoken about aloud, in the name of the commonwealth.

[@veronicajensen7690]

polar bears don't eat Ice, they actually don't need Ice at all to survive, they need plenty of fish, there are more polar bears today than 30 years ago

[@veronicajensen7690]

@@hansrasmussen5023 tourist are new immigrants from Denmark ? that does not make any sense, anyway your own Government decide how many tourists you get and if the tourists are allowed to go fishing, so if that is a problem they should just ban it or limit it instead of blaming Danes, and about Danish immigrants it's not like there a huge amount of those, my question should also be why does Greenlander's not get educated as craftsmen themselves ? you can get a free education in Denmark, even get paid to get the education, then you don't have to hire Danes ? the politicians should make it as interesting as possible for Greenlanders to get educated in the crafts you now hire Danes to do, it will bring jobs, you will be more independent and also save lots of money because many of the Danish craftsmen have to get paid for travelling back and fort to Greenland , instead you could pay locals very well and still save money, anyway stop blaming Danes and vote for politicians who are ready to take responsibility

[@col4574]

Do they have Scouts here?

[@whocares2762]

Yeah I used to be a scout when I was little en greenland

[@chewytreyman]

4:46 People has to stop being offended on behalf of others. Here's a quote from former head of government Lars-Emil Johansen: "I am proud to be an Eskimo, it is my roots to come from the Eskimo people," he says. It is possible that there are some who find that the word "Eskimo" has a negative connotation, but in that case that must be their problem, he believes. “I recognize that there are people who feel uncomfortable with the word, but as far as I know, it was not invented by colonialists, but by Indian tribes a long, long time ago in the sense of those who eat raw meat. And our ancestors did, after all, because they fed on the wealth of the sea, fish, seals, whales. For me it is a finding. If you finally want to look for something colonialist, you can probably find it in the word 'Greenland'. It's a Danish word and not one that we have in our language," he says, and is spoken warmly: "But what people attach to the word Eskimo makes me cringe. I have a pride in being an Eskimo, and no one can shake that. If you have your self-esteem in order, I don't think you have problems with that label."

[@MrAronma]

I’m greenLAnd

[@petervass2745]

The most interesting fact is @5:13

[@stukoviak]

@9:12 And the blubber will come from different kinds of whales, you know. Sometimes it will come from a Beluga whale..

[@oneshothunter9877]

You just made me hungry. Gonna eat some narwhal meat and blubber/skin. Yummi.

[@fridabalike3355]

Greenland is called Greenland not because it was green it's because this name was translated from a danish word grønland , so that it should feel familiar to people who speak English. Just as how Moskva is called Moscow so that it should also have an English touch to it . Just as how Venezia is called Venice just to put English to it even if the English in it doesn't define the word. English is just trying to take characteristics of Chinese but Chinese uses logos, English use letters so I don't see why they have to Englisize it , they can just maintain the original spelling. Chinese uses logos so it is hard for you to spell foreign words using Chinese script. English wants to imitate this.e.g spelling Chinese president name shi is spelt xi

[@bogsluger]

Nonsense

[@dmisso42]

Let's visit in hoards with our plastic drink bottles and demands for "better facilities" before the place is spoiled.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

The facts about Greenland are not shocking. That is an annoying click bait title. 😡

[@twdneganfan4725]

Greenland: ice Iceland: grass

[@BK-qp8zp]

When we were stationed in Iceland, we were told that that was not a coincidence.

[@rais1953]

Yes but the far south of Greenland is very green in summer and there is a small amount of agriculture.

[@patrickspeedling8599]

It's in north America.... Not western Europe. Misinfo lol

[@albtckl]

He said it's technically in North America but more closely tied to Europe. Did you even watch the video?? 🙄

[@oneshothunter9877]

Geographically it belongs to Northern America. Politically to Europe.

[@MoonPhantom]

It is part of the kingdom of Denmark. Denmark is in Europe so well... It's because it belongs to us. (Yes I am a Dane.) that it's technically a European country, even if the location is on the American continent. They have representatives in the Danish government and we send them money to help them sustain themselves.

[@brijmohansharma8698]

❤❤north americà contineñt🎉ór europé❤

[@EvanBlaze-fq5eg]

Neither.

[@johanneabelsen1644]

We also have the highest teenage suicide rate in the world.😢

[@whocares2762]

Woomp woomp

[@EvanBlaze-fq5eg]

There are only 9 teenagers who live there. 😂

[@imjinriver641]

Greenland needs more diversity.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Well, I think you'd be welcomed.

[@pawlica07]

Really ? All information you have mentioned are so obvious, do better next time

[@bipbipbopbop]

I agree. Some of the photos are very random. A bit strange saying there are no roads when all of the main settlements have them

[@whocares2762]

I'm greenlandic and I agree

[@robertmanella528]

Billions of dollars worth of gold and platinum under the ice!! We need to melt Greenland and get the gold and platinum!!!

[@bogsluger]

What a nasty thing to say. “We need to melt Greenland and get the gold”. I’ve heard this being said by Americans. Greenland hopefully will take care of their natural ressources from an environmental point of view

[@saturahman7510]

Huh, it is worse than Finland.

[@saturahman7510]

Greenland makes me sick.

[@Rhys4AUFC]

Meh, greenland is a bland place

[@whocares2762]

I agree I'm greenlandic