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Grønland (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 72 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 72.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 040 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -40.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Largest island in world, mostly covered by ice sheet; Aleut settlement began 3000 BCe; Sarqaq (1400 BCE) and Dorset (700 BCE) cultures developed; Norwegian (Icelander) Erik the Red settled in 982; bishop's seat established 1125; resettled by Danes 18th century; spoken languages are Danish, Danis, and Aleut (Greenlandic) dialects. |
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| Grønland (preferred,C,V,Danish-P,U,N)
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| Grønland (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Grønland (Faroese)
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| Grønland (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Grönland (C,O,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Grönland (Swedish)
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| Grönland (German)
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| Grönland (Turkish)
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| Kalaallit Nunaat (C,V,Greenlandic,U,N)
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| Kalaallit Nunaat (Northern Sami)
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| Kalâdlit-Nunât (C,V,Greenlandic,U,N)
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| Greenland (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Greenland (Somali)
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| Greenland (Croatian)
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| Greenland (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Greenland (North Ndebele)
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| Greenland (Shona)
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| Groenlândia (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Groenland (C,O,Malagasy)
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| Groenland (Dutch)
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| Groenland (Afrikaans)
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| Groenland (French)
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| Groenlandia (C,O,Spanish)
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| Groenlandia (Basque)
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| Groenlandia (Italian)
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| Groenlandia (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| GRL (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GL (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO304 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Greenlandic (C,V)
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| An Ghraonlainn (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Băng Đảo (C,U,O,Vietnamese)
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| Gorolânde (C,U,Sangho)
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| Gorwendland (C,U,Fulah)
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| Gowelande (C,U,Lingala)
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| Grænland (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Greenman (C,U,Akan)
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| Grenland (C,U,Croatian)
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| Grenland (Bosnian)
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| Grenlande (C,U,Latvian)
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| Grenlandia (C,U,Polish)
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| Grenlandia (Galician)
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| Grenlàndia (C,U,Catalan)
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| Grenlandija (C,U,Slovene)
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| Grenlandija (Lithuanian)
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| Greunland (C,U,Breton)
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| Gɔrɔhenelandi (C,U,Bambara)
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| Grinlan (C,U,Hausa)
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| Grinlandi (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Grinlandi (Swahili (generic))
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| Grinlandia (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Grinlandja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Grinland nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Groen-land (C,U,Dutch)
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| Groenlanda (C,U,Romanian)
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| Groenlandt (C,U,Dutch)
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| Groen-Landt (C,U,Dutch)
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| Gronelândia (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Grönlanda (C,U,Romansh)
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| Gronlando (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Grönlanti (C,U,Finnish)
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| Grónsko (C,U,Slovak)
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| Grónsko (Czech)
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| Gröönimaa (C,U,Estonian)
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| Gröönland (C,U,Low German)
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| Gurenelandi (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gurunilandi (C,U,Rundi)
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| i-Greenland (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kulinileni (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngowelande (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Gerelandi (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qrinland (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Yr Ynys Las (C,U,Welsh)
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| Γροιλανδία (C,U,Greek)
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| กรีนแลนด์ (C,U,Thai)
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| ግሪንላንድ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ግሪንላንድ (Amharic)
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| Гренланд (C,U,Serbian)
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| Гренланд (Macedonian)
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| גרנלנד (C,U,Hebrew )
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| گروئنلند (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| 그린랜드 (C,U,Korean)
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| Гренландия (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Гренландия (Russian)
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| Гренландія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| 格陵兰 (C,U,Chinese)
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| グリーンランド (C,U,Japanese)
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| غرينلاند (C,U,Arabic)
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| ಗ್ರೀನ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ഗ്രീന്ലാന്റ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ဂရင်းလန်း (C,U,Burmese)
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| గ్రీన్లేండ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| گرینلاند (C,U,Kurdish)
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| گرینلاند (Persian-Farsi)
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| ग्रीनलैण्ड (C,U,Hindi)
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| گرین لینڈ (C,U,Urdu)
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| ග්රීන්ලන්තය (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ग्रीनलंड (C,U,Marathi)
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| 그린란드 (C,U,Korean)
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| கிரீன்லாந்து (C,U,Tamil)
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| ଗ୍ରୀନଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ (C,U,Odia)
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| ગ્રીનલેન્ડ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ग्रिनल्याण्ड (C,U,Nepali)
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| Грэнландыя (C,U,Belarusian)
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| Ґренландія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| გრენლანდია (C,U,Georgian)
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| גרינלנד (C,U,Hebrew )
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| গ্রীনল্যান্ড (C,U,Bengali)
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Danish since 18th cen., internally self-governing since 1979 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| island (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| dependent political entity (C) |
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(World, North and Central America, Grønland, Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq) [1016570] |
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