Flag of Greenland
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The flag of Greenland features two equal horizontal bands of white and red with a counter-changed red-and-white disc slightly to the hoist side of centre. The entire flag measures 18 by 12 parts; each
The flag of Greenland displayed vertically on the Blok P apartment block in Nuuk
Schoolchildren in Upernavik with flags
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
Flag of Greenland
…parts from the hoist to the centre of the circle, and vertically centred. It was designed by Greenlandic politician Thue Christiansen. The territory of Greenland is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Its local name in the Greenlandic language is Erfalasorput, which means "our flag". The term Aappalaartoq…
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