The world's largest island-Greenland

The world's largest island-what is the world's largest island?

The world's largest island is Greenland.

About The world's largest island-Greenland:

Greenland (English: Greenland; Danish for: Gronland, Greenlandic for Kalaallit Nunaat) the world's largest island. Greenland area is 2,166,086 square kilometers (836,330 square miles.) North-east Greenland in North America, between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic . Greenland coastline of over thirty-five thousand kilometers. Greenland belongs to Denmark. Greenland's capital is Nuuk.

Greenland ice-free area an area of ​​341,700 square kilometers, but most of the North Coast and East Coast regions, the cold is almost inaccessible wilderness. Greenland inhabited area of approximately 150,000 square kilometers, mainly in the south west coast region. Greenland's vast north-south depth, there are significant regional climatic differences appear Greenland polar characteristic polar day and polar night phenomenon.

 Greenland residents are mainly located in the west and southwest, Inuit (Eskimo) people in the majority. West coast of Greenland has the world's largest fjord, cut inland 322 km. Most of Greenland settlements are located here, the capital of about 12,000 people. Greenland's Island 2 / 3 in the north of the Arctic Circle, the climate cold, only Southwest without permafrost. Greenland 5 / 6 of the land is covered by ice, the most central 3,411 m thick, with an average thickness of nearly 1,500 meters, second only to Antarctica's modern great continental glacier.

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