Greenland
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Greenland (GPS: 72 00 N, 40 00 W) is located in Northern North America, an island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada. The country’s area measurements are total: 2,166,086 sq km; land: 2,166,086 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly more than three times the size of Texas. The total irrigated land is N/A.
One of the important features of Greenland: Dominates the North Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe. Sparse population confined to small settlements along the coast. Close to one-quarter of the population lives in the capital, Nuuk. World’s second-largest ice sheet after that of Antarctica, covering an area of 1.71 million sq km (660,000 sq mi) or about 79% of the island, and containing 2.85 million cu km (684 thousand cu mi) of ice (this is almost 7% of all of the world’s freshwater). If all this ice were converted to liquid water, one estimate would be sufficient to raise the world’s oceans’ height by 7.2 m (24 ft).