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 Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is an autonomous territory^[13] of the Kingdom of Denmark.^[14] It is the larger of two autonomous territories within the Kingdom, the other being the Faroe Islands; the citizens of both territories are full citizens of Denmark. As Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union, citizens of Greenland are European Union citizens.^[15] The capital and largest city of Greenland is Nuuk.^[15] Greenland lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the world's largest island,^[d] and is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world – Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's

Although part of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally linked to Europe, particularly Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, for over a thousand years, starting in 986. The island has been inhabited intermittently for at least 4,500 years by circumpolar peoples who migrated from what is now Canada. Norse settlers arrived in the uninhabited southern part of Greenland in the 10th century, following their settlement of Iceland, and by the 13th century, Inuit peoples had arrived.

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In the early 17th century, Dano-Norwegian explorers returned to Greenland. When Denmark and Norway separated in 1814, Greenland became part of the Danish crown and was fully integrated into the Danish state in 1953 under the Danish Constitution, granting Greenlanders Danish citizenship. In the 1979 referendum, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, and in the 2008 referendum, Greenlanders approved the Self-Government Act, which transferred additional powers from Denmark to the local Greenlandic government (Naalakkersuisut). This framework allowed Greenland to take on greater responsibility for various governmental functions, while Denmark retained control over citizenship, monetary policy, and foreign affairs, including defense.