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[edit] Cities/Towns

I couldn't help but notice that this article doesn't describe how the people live in Greenland. Do they mostly live in cities, towns or villages? What are the major cities and their population. What is the main harbor? With such a small total population, how much access to services do they have (for example is there a major hospital or university on Greenland) or would they have to go to Denmark proper for advanced services? How is infrastructure (roads, bridges, harbors, construction) maintained. What is the median age of the population and is the population size stable, increasing or decreasing. Are people immigrating to Greenland or are Greenlanders more likely to move somewhere else for opportunities? These are just some of the questions I came to this article to learn, but none of these issues are addressed in the article. If anyone has this knowledge or sources, please incorporate it into the article. Thanks.--William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 22:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Population in Infobox

In the info box for population it just says "6".

Surely that can't be right ... in the article it says about 68,000. --Biatch (talk) 01:03, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Just bad luck on your part, you happened to get here four minutes after vandalism, which was quickly reverted. There's something fishy with the numbers though. The text says 68,400 (2007) but references a source that says 57,100 (2005), the infobox says 60,000 (Dec 2007) with no source at all and the country list gives the UN estimate of 58,000 (mid-2007). Could it be that 68,400, introduced by an anonymous user in January, is just unfounded? -- Jao (talk) 15:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
It's been vandalised again; Incredibly lame... does anyone have an accurate number?
this seems plausible: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gl.html#People 82.73.93.89 (talk) 23:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
That does, I updated the article with that information and added that as a source. Gh5046 (talk) 23:26, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Somebody has been messing with this article

Somebody has been putting crap information in this article, like the motto is: Green is good! And that the anthem is Greenland is green. I'm repairing what I can of this stuff...

Not cool!

(And I'm not sure if it's a minor change or not...)

Mx31 (talk) 18:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Population in Greenland:
56.648 (jan. 2007) according to Greenland Statistics. (www.statgreen.gl).--194.177.253.226 (talk) 06:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)eab