an issue that’s especially noticeable in a land with the lowest population density in the world. Otherwise, Greenland hasn’t been on many people’s radar. There are many family ties between ...

At least one person has died and thousands have been evacuated as Japan battles record-breaking wildfires along the east coast. The Ofunato wildfire in Iwate has more than doubled in size, becoming ...

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 ...

Greenland covers an area about three times the size of Texas and is home to 56,000 people, mostly Greenlandic Inuits.

More: Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think. But Greenland’s population of roughly 56,000 is a small fraction of the Scandinavian country. For context, the least ...

Trump said Greenland becoming a U.S. territory would make Greenland's population safe and rich. "Together, we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before," Trump said.

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...