Greenland

Greenland (, meanin "Laund o the Greenlanders"; ) is an autonomous kintra athin the Kinrick o Denmark locatit atween the Airctic an Atlantic Oceans, east o the Canadian Airctic Archipelago. Tho physiographical an ethnically an Airctic island kintra an geographically a pairt o the continent o North Americae, politically an historically Greenland is associatit wi Europe, in parteecular Iceland, Norawa, an Denmark. In 1979, Denmark grantit hame rule tae Greenland, wi a relationship describit bi the Rigsfællesskabet, an in 2008 Greenland votit tae acome a separate kintra athin the Kinrick o Denmark, effective Juin 2009. Greenland is, bi scowth, the warld's lairgest island that is no a continent in its ain richt.

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Category:Kintras borderin the Airctic Ocean
Category:Kintras borderin the Atlantic Ocean
Category:Dens dependencies
Category:Dens-speakin kintras
Category:Dependent territories in North Americae
Category:Northren American kintras
Category:European dependencies
Category:Umwhile Norse colonies
Category:Inuit territories
Category:Nordic kintras
Category:Island kintras
Category:Regions o the Arctic
Category:Special territories o the European Union
Category:States an territories established in 1979