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 ...

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.

Now, if you look at a map of Greenland, it does appear to be massive. But that’s not because Greenland is actually massive. The earth is a sphere, and so when you lay it out on a flat map, ...

But that’s not because Greenland is actually massive. The earth is a sphere, and so when you lay it out on a flat map, all of the areas near the North and South Poles are stretched out to look ...

“It has kind of put Greenland on the world map. And it’s definitely a situation that Raw Arctic has used to our advantage,” he said.

Since 2009 a burst of new satellites, radar systems and seismic stations has prompted steady growth in datasets available for geological mapping, the researchers say. For their new Greenland map ...

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 ...