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Greenland

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GREENLAND
GREENLAND

Greenland is a self-governing Island Region of Denmark but relies on Denmark for its foreign affairs.

For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here External, to postal code pages here External and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here External.

Table of Contents

Greenland - Country information

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Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

56 699 (2024 estimate) [1]

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

299

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

DK

Internet country code

GL

GRC Country Code

GRN

Greenland - Number format

   Note: This section last updated 22nd April 2021
   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

Greenland - Date and time formats

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   Note: This section last updated 22nd April 2021

In Danish:

   dd.mm.yyyy
   14.32

In Inuktitut:

   yyyy.mm.dd
   14.32

Greenland - Languages

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The official language is Inuktitut External (Greenlandic, also called Kalaallisut in Greenland) (40 000 speakers), an Inuit (Eskimo) language. Danish External (7 830 speakers), the official language before June 2009, still widely used.

Greenland - Forms of address

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Forms of address are not used in Greenland.

   Tables of forms of address External can be acquired

Greenland - Addresses

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Addresses are written in this format:

   Recipient name
   Thoroughfare[ ]number
   postal code[  ]SETTLEMENT NAME

for example:

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The postal code should be separated from the town name by two spaces.

The address may be written in Greenlandic or Danish.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired External

Greenland - Postal codes

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Greenland belongs to the Danish postal system and, like Denmark, all its postal codes consist of a block of 4 digits placed before and on the same line as the settlement name. All Greenland postal codes begin with the number 39. Each settlement has its own postal code.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired External

Greenland - Postal code format graphic

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Greenland - Postal code format

Greenland - Postal code specifics

Greenland - Postal code regular expression

\A((39)[0-9][0-9])\Z

Greenland - Postal code level of coverage

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Greenland - Postal code map

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Place names in Greenland

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Refer to Exonyms in Greenland for full lists of place names in Greenland in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http:www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm External
   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm External

Greenland - Administrative districts

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   Note: This section last updated 27th December 2017

Greenland is divided into 5 communes External, not used in addresses. These are:

    Avannaata External
    Kujalleq External
    Qaasuitsup External
    Qeqertalik External
    Sermersooq External

Some of the country is not assigned to any of these five communes.

Administrative districts graphic

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Telephone numbers in Greenland

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   Note: This section last updated 24th September 2017

Greenland telephone numbers have no area codes. All subscriber numbers have 6 digits. Mobile numbers begin 21-29, 42-49 or 51-59.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm External 

Properties with value Greenland

References

  1. ^ citypopulation.de/en/greenland/ External 20240312

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