Greenland is larger than any American state, but 80% of it is buried beneath an ice sheet. Almost 90% of the nearly 60,000 ...

Why are maps wrong about Greenland ... Its total population is just 57,751 people, smaller than the population of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Though Greenland is mostly ice, its not all ice.

Some 95 percent of the population is Protestant ... deposits in the south and west. On some map projections, which enlarge landmasses near the poles, Greenland appears much bigger than it really ...

Moving Greenland to U.S. Northern Command, which is in charge of defending the homeland, is a symbolic statement.

The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...

The least densely populated country in the world is Greenland ... it is the area on this map with the largest gap between its population ranking and its population density ranking.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Coons made the ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

More: Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think. But Greenland’s population of roughly 56,000 is a small fraction of the Scandinavian country. For context, the least ...