January 19, 2025, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland: Greenland: The town of Kangerlussuaq, in southern Greenland. The town's economy centers on the airport there, which is also used as a US Air Force base. .The thin strip of land hugging the coast is the only part of the great Greenland subcontinent that isn't covered by a massive icecap. An autonomous territory which remains part of the Denmark, Greenland
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is situated in the North Atlantic between Canada and Iceland. It has a huge landmass of 2.1+million square kilometers of which 81% is covered by a glacier some 2,300meters thick. Larger than Germany, the thin strip of habitable land hugging its circumfrence supports a popultion of only 56,421 (2021). With a per capita GDP at a largely subsistance level, the territory receives subsidies from Denmark and also from the European Union, even though it is not a member state. At the same time, it's estimated that Greenland has massive untapped natural resources in teh form of rare eath metals, nickel, gold, diamonds, iron, graphite, uranium, copper, not to mention oil.
Fecha: 19/01/2025.
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