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So... How small kingdom of Denmark was being able to take entire Island size of an


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So... How small kingdom of Denmark was being able to take entire Island size of an Africa just for itself?
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by projecting their colossal 3d insecurity onto a 2d map in a particularly distorted way
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>>1388340
Nobody else wants it
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It's just a frozen rock with a bunch of (mostly) Greenlandic inuits, who spend their days getting drunk and playing chess.

Nobody else wants it.
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its literally only a few small coastal towns. the rest is just recognized as danish land
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>>1388340
>take entire Island size of an Africa just for itself
>>1388355 /this
Greenland: 836,300 sq miles
Africa: 11,670,00 sq miles
>>1388355 /this
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>>1388340
> size of africa
it´s not, the mercator projection makes it appear so
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Viking berserkers
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Russia and Greenland are the biggest victims of Mercator projection tbqhwyf.
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Technically the Danes had colonized greenland before any European power even began colonialism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red
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