Greenland

Country name: conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Greenland
local long form: none
local short form: Kalaallit Nunaat

Capital:: Nuuk (Godthab)
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
note: Greenland is divided into four time zones

Government type: parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy

Location	Northern North America, island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada
Geographic coordinates	72 00 N, 40 00 W
Map references	Arctic Region
Area	total: 2,166,086 sq km land: 2,166,086 sq km (410,449 sq km ice-free, 1,755,637 sq km ice-covered)
Area - comparative	slightly more than three times the size of Texas
Land boundaries	0 km
Coastline	44,087 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line continental shelf: 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line
Climate	arctic to subarctic; cool summers, cold winters
Terrain	flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Gunnbjorn Fjeld 3,700 m
Natural resources	coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, molybdenum, diamonds, gold, platinum, niobium, tantalite, uranium, fish, seals, whales, hydropower, possible oil and gas
Land use	arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Irrigated land	NA
Natural hazards	continuous permafrost over northern two-thirds of the island
Environment - current issues	protection of the arctic environment; preservation of the Inuit traditional way of life, including whaling and seal hunting
Geography - note	dominates North Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe; sparse population confined to small settlements along coast; close to one-quarter of the population lives in the capital, Nuuk; world's second largest ice cap