Greenland is a country. That's not often
Talked about but there's still a lot to be said about it as well as a lot to be seen in the country
Welcome back to FTD facts. My name is Leroy Kenton, and I got 10 surprising facts about Greenland coming up right now
So let's get right into this first thing that I want to talk about when it comes to Greenland is its ice sheet?
So most of Greenland is actually covered by an ice sheet
Greenland is a home to the second largest ice sheet in the entire world, and it's only second to
Antarctica the ice sheet covers more than 1.8 million square kilometers in total so pretty much the entire
Country is covered. And if you're talking specific
percentages
80% of it is covered by the ice sheet now moving on to number 9 despite the name having green in it
It's called Greenland, right Greenland doesn't have much greenery to look at
however
It still has a lot of green parts when it comes to the country
The other 20% of the land that isn't covered by the ice sheet
So for the most part those areas actually live up to its name Greenland
So for all be planning a trip to Greenland, you'll notice that you don't have many options at all to get there
There are really only two ways to get to Greenland. The first way is to fly from Iceland to Greenland
There are flights to Greenland from Iceland via air Iceland connect as well as from Denmark
Which of course makes sense since Greenland is under Danish rule. You would have to travel via air Greenland
There's also no connecting flights from the United States and other countries speaking of connecting flights
However, in terms of connecting roads, there's actually no connecting roads in Greenland
people can be left really confused if they see films featuring Greenland because they'll believe that there are roads that
Connect Greenland together
However, there are not and let me explain some roads exist within the towns themselves where you can drive around and get around pretty easily
But when it comes to roads between the settlements
You won't find them at all transportation would have to be done via a boat or some sort of aircraft like a helicopter or plane
And there are several airports and heliports across Greenland as well so you can take advantage of that
Another common way to travel is on a snowmobile
And also if you're old school you can do dog sledding as well and number six is a very fascinating fact about Greenland
The Sun doesn't actually set from May 25th all the way to July 25th
and it stays visible pretty much throughout the entire day and night June 21st is considered the longest day of the year and it's also
Celebrated as a national holiday July is the only month when Greenland's temperature reaches above freezing
I mean, it's pretty cool
you can YouTube search some of the time-lapse footages and you'll see that the Sun actually doesn't set it just
Travels across the sky never actually setting is really fascinating next up summer temperatures
Let's talk about that. So summer temperatures are
Surprisingly high in Greenland during the summer months in the southern part of Greenland
You may find that the temperatures go as high as 20 degrees Celsius which is equal to 68 degrees
Fahrenheit or even higher at times?
it's perfect weather for sightseeing as well as enjoying the outdoors or even go outside without having to
Bundle up with scarves and hats and jackets Guerlain is also the most sparsely populated
Country on the planet when it comes to freezing cold temperatures and ice mixing with ideal living conditions for humans
They just don't really go together at all
which of course is a very big reason why you'll notice that in Greenland the human population makes up just
16 towns and the total population of Greenland is
57,000 almost 1/3 of this tiny population lives in the capital city of nuke and the national language in Greenland is
Greenlandic it's really closely related to the Inuit language of the indigenous people of
Canada as well as in Alaska and being a self-governing
Territory of Denmark the people of Greenland also speak Danish as well as many of them can understand and speak English fluently
Greenland is also one of the best places in the world to see this amazing
Phenomenon known as the Northern Lights. You guys know what I'm talking about southern Greenland lies beneath the aurora borealis
Oval zone and is along with Iceland considered a prime location to view the Northern Lights
Like I've never seen them up close in person, but I've learned about the Northern Lights as a kid
And I've always wanted to go see it in person
So I think that you should well any of everybody should at least see that once in their lifetime
The Gunther butan is also home to three world heritage sites one of Greenland's three unesco world heritage sites is the
illicit ice fjord and that's located over on the west coast and that's where you'll find the
Cermak Kuja lacked one of the most active
Glaciers in the world and also the most visited glacier in the entire country
the other two are they KU jata and the sav suet nips at region cajeta is a
Subarctic farming area that highlights the cultural histories of the Norse and Inuit hunters as well as the farmers who develop the area
Asif visu it nips
Saad is an Inuit hunting ground that is located inside of the Arctic Circle and the final surprising fact about
Greenland that I have for you is that Greenland is actually the world's biggest island by area
That is not a continent not to be mixed up with Australia. That is the largest island in the entire world
However, it's considered to be a continent
The total area of Greenland is two point one six million square kilometers and this includes other
Offshore islands. Alright guys
So before I wrap up this episode
I just want to respond to some of your comments that you left on our first video of Greenland
I didn't host that video
It was actually Dave that hosted that video but let's take a look and see what some of y'all said
Okay here we have Himanshu Rai
He says sounds like a country. I might like less humans
Normally when people say there's like, oh, yeah, I don't like people I just want to be by myself all the time
They're actually lonely inside
So if you see him Manchu Rai on YouTube if you see any of his comments or find his YouTube page
Just give him a little love from Leroy. Okay, how's that rpm says, lol
YouTube's recommended me after Trump wants to buy his greatest real estate in Greenland. Yeah. That was a big thing
There was a lot of talk in the news about Donald Trump wanting to purchase
Greenland and people were protesting saying during is not for sale
and yeah, a lot of new viewers had come in because we posted that video about Greenland over a year ago and
A lot of people weren't even watching that
But as soon as Trump talks about Greenland so many people started searching Greenland and found our episode
So so if you're new and you found our channel recently, welcome to fde facts
And I hope you keep coming back every single day to learn something new about our world. Alright, next comment. Let's take a look Hans
Solo, what did he say? Han Solo says hey, I want a part too without mr. Mullet in it, please
He's our friend too, Dave
I think but Hans I guess you got what you wish for because I'm pretty much making a partyer
This is not exactly a part two kind of technically it is but yeah
It's me, Leeroy not the guy with the mullet aka Dave
oh, you guys are very interesting sometimes and here we have egg rolls soup says
Siberia not
Serbia yeah in that episode. I believe Dave said Serbia at the six-minute mark and of course, yeah
It's not Serbia. It's Siberia
That was just like a brain fart Andy and you guys gotta realize that a lot of times we're going through so much
information and when it comes to filming and recording these videos
There's times where we just we know what we want to say
But somehow we just say a completely different word and then I that's missed completely in the editing process
And then when it's uploaded it's like oh well shit
My dad, but you guys were a great sport you guys never really commented too negatively about that in the comment section
I took a look and you guys are pretty cool with it. I think you all were smart enough to know that
Yeah, that was a genuine mistake. Not that we actually believed that it was Serbia. No
Siberia there's so much about Greenland that can be said so here's another episode where you can learn a lot more about
Greenland's history and what else the country has to offer?
I highly recommend this one and if you haven't done so already
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