Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., told CNN host Dana Bash on Monday that he thinks average middle Americans cannot find the country of Greenland on a map.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Coons made the ...

Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.

Greenland's 56,000 residents have their own government and parliament, which manage internal affairs. Denmark controls the island's foreign policy and defense. Greenlanders are Danish citizens.

It’s Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, one of America’s closest allies. “I love maps,” Trump once explained. “And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive.

Per a 1951 treaty with Denmark, the U.S. is able to build military installations in Greenland. At its peak during the Cold War, Washington had 17 military base across the island with about 10,000 ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

What To Know The southern portion of Greenland is rich in a number of minerals, including widely used metals and several deposits of rare earths (in red on the above map). According to a 2023 ...