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Greenland
| Location |
Between N Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean |
| Latitude and longitude |
72 00 N, 40 00 W |
| Sovereignty |
Denmark |
| Population |
56,309 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2000 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
2,175,600 |
| Capital |
Nuuk (Godthåb) |
Legal documents online
|
| International Court of Justice, Case
Concerning Maritime
Delimitation in the Area Between Greenland and Jan Mayen
(Denmark v. Norway), 1988-1993 |
|
Defense
of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of
Denmark,
April 27, 1951, from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School |
| Hingitaq
53 v. Prime Minister's Office, Supreme Court of Denmark (2003)
(regarding relocation of Inuits from Thule--compensation and right of
return) (excerpts posted by the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference) |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Country
profile: Greenland, from the BBC News |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Fishery
Country Profile--Greenland, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| Greenland
and Greenland:
An Overview, from the Government of Denmark |
| Greenland
Home Rule Government |
| Greenland
Guide, from the National Tourist Board of Greenland |
| Statistics
Greenland |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| Greenland,
in The Working Autonomies in Europe: Territorial autonomy as a
Means of Minority Protection and Conflict Solution in the European
Experience - An Overview and Schematic Comparison, by Thomas Benedikter
(2006) (scroll to 2.2.2) |
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