Greenland

Kalaallit Nunaat
Grønland
Grinilandi

Bendera Nembo
Kaulimbiu ya taifa:
Wimbo wa taifa: Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit Nuna asiilasooq
Mji mkuu	Nuuk (Godthåb) 64°10′ N 51°43′ W
Mji mkubwa nchini	Nuuk (Godthåb)
Lugha rasmi	{{{official_languages}}}
Serikali Malkia Waziri Mkuu	Demokrasia (serikali ya kibunge ndani ya ufalme wa kikatiba) Margrethe II wa Denmark Kim Kielsen 2014
Eneo la kujitawala Kujitawala	1979
Eneo  - Jumla  - Maji (%)	2,166,086 km² (ya 12) 83.1a
Idadi ya watu  - Machi 2014 kadirio  - Msongamano wa watu	56,968 (ya 213) 0.026/km² (ya 244)
Fedha	Krone ya Denmark (DKK)
Saa za eneo  - Kiangazi (DST)	(UTC0 to -4) (UTC)
Intaneti TLD	.gl
Kodi ya simu	+299 -
a As of 2000: 410,449 km² (158,433 sq. miles) ice-free; 1,755,637 km² (677,676 sq. miles) ice-covered. b 2001 estimate.

Greenland (kwa Kiswahili Grinilandi pia; kwa Kikalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaat = Nchi ya Wagreenland) ni nchi ya kujitawala chini ya ufalme wa Denmark lakini haihesabiwi kuwa sehemu ya Denmark yenyewe.

Eneo la Greenland ni kubwa, lakini idadi ya wakazi ni ndogo sana kwa sababu sehemu kubwa ya nchi (85%) imefunikwa na ganda nene la barafu.

Jina

Jina la Kiswahili limetokana na lile la Kiingereza "Greenland", ambalo ni tafsiri ya jina la Kidenmark "Grønland", linalomaanisha "nchi yenye rangi ya majani mabichi".

Jina hilo Greenland lilitungwa miaka 1000 iliyopita, kwa sababu wakati ule hali ya hewa duniani ilikuwa na joto zaidi, na hapakuwa na barafu nyingi kama leo.

Jiografia

Kijiografia Greenland, kisiwa kikubwa kuliko vyote duniani, ni sehemu ya bamba la Amerika ya Kaskazini lakini kihistoria na kisiasa kwa karne kadhaa imekuwa na uhusiano wa karibu na Skandinavia (Ulaya ya Kaskazini).

Mlima wa juu wa Greenland ni Mlima Gunnbjørn (m 3,694 juu ya UB) katika Watkins Range.

Barafuto ya Sermeq Kujatdlek upande wa magharibi wa Greenland.

Mji mkuu ni Godthaab inayoitwa Nuuk (17,000) na wakazi asilia (88%) waliotokea Asia, ingawa wengi wana pia damu ya Kizungu. Lugha yao ndiyo lugha rasmi pekee tangu mwaka 2009. 11% ni Wazungu asilia na wanaongea Kidenmark ambacho kinaendelea kutumiwa na wote katika nafasi kadhaa. Wakazi wengi wanaweza kuongea lugha zote mbili.

Upande wa dini, walio wengi ni Wakristo, hasa Walutheri (85%).

Greenland inaongoza duniani kwa asilimia ya watu wanaojiua.

Marejeo

• (2006) Arctic Spirit. Vancouver, BC: Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 978-1-55365-189-5. 
• (2004) Historical Dictionary of the Inuit. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. ISBN 0-8108-5058-3. OCLC 54768167. 

Marejeo mengine

Grønland

• Bardarson, I. (ed. Jónsson, F.) "Det gamle Grønlands beskrivelse af Ívar Bárðarson (Ivar Bårdssön)", (Copenhagen, 1930).
• CIA World Factbook, 2000.
• Conkling, P. W. et al. 2011. The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change, co-authored with Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker and George Denton, with photographs by Gary Comer, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Lund, S. 1959. The Marine Algae of East Greenland. 1. Taxonomical Part. Meddr Gronland. 156(1), pp. 1–245.
• Lund, S. 1959. The Marine Algae of East Greenland. 11. Geographic Distribution. Meddr Gronland. 156, pp. 1–70.
• Steffen, Konrad, N. Cullen, and R. Huff (2005). "Climate variability and trends along the western slope of the Greenland Ice Sheet during 1991–2004," Proceedings of the 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (San Diego).
• Sowa, F. 2013. Indigenous Peoples and the Institutionalization of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Greenland. In: Arctic Anthropology. 50(1), pp. 72-88.
• Sowa, F. 2013. Relations of Power & Domination in a World Polity: The Politics of Indigeneity & National Identity in Greenland. In: Heininen, L. Arctic Yearbook 2013. The Arctic of regions vs. the globalized Arctic. Akureyri: Northern Research Forum, pp. 184-198.www.arcticyearbook.com/ay2013
• Sowa, F. 2014. Greenland. in: Hund, A. Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth’s Polar Regions. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 312-316.

Viungo vya nje

• Tovuti rasmi

Taarifa za jumla

• Greenland entry at Denmark.dk.
• Greenland entry at The World Factbook
• Greenland entry at Encyclopædia Britannica.
• A guide to Greenlandic Culture at culture.gl.
• Greenland at UCB Libraries GovPubs.
• Greenland katika Open Directory Project
• Daily updated satellite images from Greenland
• Greenland profile from the BBC News
• Key Development Forecasts for the Kingdom of Denmark from International Futures
• Population in Greenland
• Official statistical information about Greenland from stat.gl.

Serikali

• Government Offices of Greenland
• Greenlandic Government Information Center, the official English-language online portal (administered by the Greenland Ministry for Foreign Affairs)
• Departement of Foreign Affairs of Greenland
• Greenland represented with the Kingdom of Denmark Embassies
• Summary vital statistics about Greenland from Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik.

Ramani

• Wikimedia Atlas of Greenland
• Satellite image of Greenland at the NASA Earth Observatory.

Vyombo vya habari

• Oil and Minerals Greenland at Arctic Journal
• Google news Greenland
• History of Greenland: Primary Documents
• Geological maps of Greenland

Biashara

• World Bank Summary Trade Statistics Greenland

Safari

• Visit Greenland – the official Greenlandic Tourist Board

Mengineyo

• The Norse in the North Atlantic: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Memorial University of Newfoundland.
• A Photographer’s View of Greenland Documentary produced by Murray Fredericks
• Vifanord.de – library of scientific information on the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Makala hii kuhusu eneo fulani bado ni mbegu. Je unajua kitu kuhusu Greenland kama historia yake, biashara, taasisi zilizopo, watu au utamaduni? Labda unaona habari katika wikipedia ya Kiingereza au lugha nyingine zinazofaa kutafsiriwa? Basi unaweza kuisaidia Wikipedia kwa kuihariri na kuongeza habari. Usitaje majina ya madiwani na viongozi au maafisa wengine wa sasa maana wanabadilika haraka mno.