Economy of Greenland
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Greenland has a developing economy, with a large public sector and extensive foreign trade. This has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth, considerable inflation, unemployment problems
Nuuk skyline at night
Greenland
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Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. Citizens
Economy of Greenland
…Greenland has a developing economy, with a large public sector and extensive foreign trade. This has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth…
The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved Norse ruin.
The Cantino planisphere, completed by an unknown cartographer in 1502, depicts Greenland as a Portuguese territory claimed by King Manuel I.
Summer Night Off the Greenland Coast Circa Year 1000, by Carl Rasmussen, 1875
Hans Egede (1686–1758), Lutheran missionary, credited with revitalising Denmark's relationship with Greenland