2025-01-09 21:38 UTC
3/ Denmark 🇩🇰 is part of the European Union 🇪🇺, but Greenland 🇬🇱 is not, having left the European Economic Community (the EU's predecessor) in 1985. Nevertheless, because they are citizens of the Danish Realm, Greenlandic citizens have EU citizenship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union
As with most of the 32 "special territories of members of the European Economic Area", it's complicated.
#geoweirdness
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2025-01-09 21:38
4/ Greenland 🇬🇱 is big, but probably not as big as you think. Most map projections, including the widely used Mercator projection, distort the size of land near the poles. As a result Greenland looks much bigger than it actually is. A great tool for visually comparing the true size of countries is ... thetruesize.com https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU4OTkwMjY.MzI5ODM3MA*Mjc0NzA4MTY(OTk4MTYw~!GL*OTU3NzIwNQ.NTQ3MjY0)Mw As this Dymaxion projection shows Greenland is "only" the 11th largest country. #geoweirdness