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Jens-Frederik Nielsen was elected as Greenland’s new Prime Minister following the March 2024 elections.
His party, Demokraatit, gained seven seats, breaking the dominance of traditional parties like Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) and Siumut.
The elections attracted international focus after U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about buying Greenland.
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark.
It is by far the largest of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands.
Greenland lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
It is the world's largest island, and is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world—Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's northernmost undisputed point of land;
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
It is the metropolitan part of and the most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Metropolitan Denmark is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying south-west and south of Sweden, south of Norway,and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border.
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