Greenland
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- GL
- ISO alpha-3
- GRL
- ISO numeric
- 304
- FIPS 10-4
- GL
- GeoNames ID
- 3425505
Key facts
- Capital
- Nuuk
- Area
- 2,166,086 km²
- Population
- 56,025
- Currency
- Krone (DKK)
- Calling code
- +299
- Top-level domain
- .gl
- Official languages
- kl,da-GL,en
Continent
- Name
- North America
- Code
- NA
- In this dataset
- 42 countries
Location
- Min latitude
- 59.792629299000055
- Min longitude
- -73.05724036399994
- Max latitude
- 83.63410065300008
- Max longitude
- -11.37682044199994
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/GL?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 2166086,
"capital": "Nuuk",
"continent_code": "NA",
"currency_code": "DKK",
"iso3_code": "GRL",
"iso_code": "GL",
"name": "Greenland",
"population": 56025
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/GL/regions/v1/cities?country=GL/v1/postal-codes?country=GL/v1/timezones?country=GL
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- غرينلاند
- Chinese
- 格陵兰
- English
- Greenland
- French
- Groenland
- German
- Grönland
- Hindi
- ग्रीनलैंड
- Italian
- Groenlandia
- Japanese
- グリーンランド
- Korean
- 그린란드
- Portuguese
- Groenlândia
- Russian
- Гренландия
- Spanish
- Groenlandia
- Total language variants
- 125
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| America/Danmarkshavn | UTC+00:00 | UTC+00:00 |
| America/Nuuk | UTC-02:00 | UTC-01:00 |
| America/Scoresbysund | UTC-02:00 | UTC-01:00 |
| America/Thule | UTC-04:00 | UTC-03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ####
- Pattern
^(\d{4})$
First-level administrative regions
- Sermersooq
- Avannaata
- Qeqqata
- Kujalleq
- Qeqertalik
5 of 5 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Nuuk | 14,798 |
| Sisimiut | 5,227 |
| Ilulissat | 4,413 |
| Qaqortoq | 3,224 |
| Aasiaat | 3,005 |
| Maniitsoq | 2,534 |
| Tasiilaq | 1,985 |
| Uummannaq | 1,407 |
| Narsaq | 1,346 |
| Paamiut | 1,308 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 255
- First-level regions
- 5
- Postal codes
- 33
- Name languages
- 125
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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