Like people live in Greenland, but a lot of maps with data have Greenland marked as gray for no data. Why is that?
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Greenland is not an autonomous country; it’s a territory of Denmark. The data for Greenland is likely included in Denmark’s data.
Because there’s only 56,225 people there, and the people there live very isolated, so getting answers on surveys isn’t worth the effort
It’ll depend on what data you’re talking about of course, but Greenland is the least densely populated country on Earth. ~~They’re comparatively fairly spread out and not very packed into cities.~~Actually they’re about as packed into cities as anyone – it’s just the very low density in general.
That, combined with the climate, makes it perhaps the most expensive place in the world to take a census or conduct a survey.
Greenland is big area wise but there are very few people living there.
You may have been to concerts or sports events that had more people in attendance than live in all of Greenland.
In addition to that it is not even fully its own country and any data collection would have gone to Denmark. Denmark is a small country area wise but it has a number of cities with more people in them than all of Greenland.
The Faroe Islands are in a similar position to Greenland in that they also are sort of semi independent but part of Denmark and also have a population about the same size.
You rarely see the Faroe Islands marked as having no data or having its data displayed on such maps though because most maps don’t even put them in and few people realize that they are missing.
The graph makers only mark Denmark with “no data” because it is so large and looks even larger on many common map projections, while treating similar populous anomalies as not even worth mentioning.
There are some people in Greenland but very few only along the southern coast and most are not well off. Most of the island is covered in glaciers and the island is a territory of Denmark.
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