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Greenland
Image of the Greenlandic Flag

Flag Colors & Description

Greenland's flag consists of two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red. A large disk with a red top half and a white bottom half is superimposed over the flag, slightly to the hoist side of center.

People

Population: 56,361 (July 2006 estimate) (growth rate): -0.03% (2006 estimate)

Gdp: $1.1 billion (2001 estimate) (per capita): $20,000 (2001 estimate)

Languages:
Greenlandic (East Inuit), Danish, English

Government

Capital: Nuuk (Godthab)

Government type: parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy

Geography

Natural Resources: coal, fish, gold, hydropower, iron ore, lead, molybdenum, platinum, possible oil and gas, seals, uranium, whales, zinc

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