Grönland - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
geographic coordinates: 64 11 N, 51 45 W
time difference: UTC-3 (2 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
time zone note: Greenland has four time zones
etymology: "nuuk" is the Inuit word for "cape" and refers to the city's position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord
land: 2,166,086 sq km (approximately 1,710,000 sq km ice-covered)
arable land: 0% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 0% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 0.6% (2018 est.)
forest: 0% (2018 est.)
other: 99.4% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 67.66% (male 20,271/female 18,820)
65 years and over: 11.89% (2023 est.) (male 3,641/female 3,226)
male: 71.6 years
female: 77.1 years
male: 35.7 years
female: 34.4 years
rate of urbanization: 0.41% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
10.3% (2014 est.)
1.2% (January 2016 est.)
$599.7 million (2014 est.)
$866.1 million (2014 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 28 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 69.5% (2021 est.)
note: although there are short roads in towns, there are no roads between towns; inter-urban transport is either by sea or by air
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 11 (2020 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 118 (2021 est.)