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title: "Greenland — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Greenland: capital Nuuk, area 2,166,086 km², population 56,831 (2025), currency krone. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/greenland/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greenland

**Greenland: Capital Nuuk**

2,166,086 km² · 56,831 people (2025) · krone

The largest island in the world, and about eighty percent of it is under an ice sheet up to 3 km thick — enough water to raise global sea level roughly 7 m if it all melted. There are no roads between towns; travel is by boat, plane or snow. Its population of under 60,000 lives almost entirely on the ice-free coastal fringe.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Nuuk
- **Area:** 2,166,086 km² — 836,330 sq mi
- **Population:** 56,831 (2025)
- **Density:** 0.0 people per km²
- **Currency:** krone (DKK, kr.)
- **Official language:** Greenlandic
- **Time zones:** UTC-04:00, UTC-02:00, UTC+00:00
- **Calling code:** +299
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** GL · GRL
- **Continent:** North America

## How it compares

- **By area:** 12 of 200
- **By population:** 191 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Algeria | 2,381,740 | 47,435,312 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,344,858 | 112,832,473 |
| Greenland ← | 2,166,086 | 56,831 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 | 36,973,555 |
| Mexico | 1,964,375 | 131,946,900 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Greenland?

Nuuk

### What currency does Greenland use?

The krone (DKK).

### How big is Greenland?

2,166,086 km², or 836,330 square miles — 12 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Greenland drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Algeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/algeria/)
- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://atoneplace.net/country/saudi-arabia/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [United States](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-states/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country/canada/)
- [Guatemala](https://atoneplace.net/country/guatemala/)
- [Haiti](https://atoneplace.net/country/haiti/)
- [Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country/dominican-republic/)
- [Honduras](https://atoneplace.net/country/honduras/)
- [Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country/cuba/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]