Five graphics that show Greenland’s importance to Trump
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Key Points:
- Greenland is a strategic geopolitical focus due to its location in the Arctic, with the US expressing strong interest in controlling the territory, which is currently an autonomous Danish territory culturally and politically linked to Europe.
- The US has longstanding military and defense interests in Greenland, including the Pituffik Space Base, and sees the island as crucial for Arctic defense strategy amid increasing competition from Russia, China, and European nations.
- Greenland is the world's largest island, covering about 2.17 million square kilometers, but has a very sparse population of around 56,000 people, mostly concentrated in a few settlements, with an aging demographic expected to decline further by 2050.
- Climate change is rapidly melting Greenland’s ice sheet, contributing to
