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Qaasuitsup (" Place ___MASK29___ Polar Darkness ") is a municipality in Greenland , operational from 1 January 2009 . As ___MASK29___ January 2013 its population is 17 , 498 . The administrative ___MASK66___ ___MASK29___ the municipality is in Ilulissat ( formerly called Jakobshavn ). The municipality consists ___MASK29___ the former municipalities ___MASK29___ western and ___MASK2___ Greenland , each named after the biggest settlement : Iginniarfik is a village in the municipality ___MASK29___ Qaasuitsup , in western Greenland . Its population was 88 in 2010 . The Danish Realm is a realm comprising ___MASK82___ proper , The Faroe Islands and ___MASK85___ . Ilulissat , formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven , is a town in the ___MASK83___ in western Greenland , located approximately north of the Arctic Circle . With the population of 4 , 541 as of 2013 , it is the third - largest city in Greenland , after Nuuk and Sisimiut . The city is home to almost as many sled - dogs . The Republic ___MASK29___ Iceland , " Lýðveldið Ísland " in Icelandic , is a Nordic island country in the North ___MASK38___ . It has a population ___MASK29___ and an area ___MASK29___ , making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe . The capital and largest city is Reykjavík . Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest ___MASK29___ the country are home to over two - thirds ___MASK29___ the population . Iceland is volcanically and geologically active . The interior consists ___MASK29___ a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields , mountains and glaciers , while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands . Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate , despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle . Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly , with most ___MASK29___ the archipelago having a tundra climate . Inuit ( pronounced or ; Inuktitut : , " the people ") are a group ___MASK29___ culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions ___MASK29___ Greenland , Canada and Alaska . Inuit is a plural noun ; the singular is Inuk . The oral Inuit languages are classified in the Eskimo - Aleut family . Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate spoken in Nunavut . The Canadian Arctic Archipelago , also known as the Arctic Archipelago , is a group ___MASK29___ islands north ___MASK29___ the Canadian mainland . The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part ___MASK29___ Earth . The Arctic consists ___MASK29___ the Arctic Ocean , adjacent seas , and parts ___MASK29___ Alaska ( United States ), Canada , Finland , Greenland ( Denmark ), Iceland , Norway , Russia , and Sweden . Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover , with predominantly treeless permafrost - containing tundra . Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places . ___MASK92___ America is a continent entirely within the ___MASK2___ Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere . It can also be considered a ___MASK2___ subcontinent of the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean , to the east by the ___MASK38___ , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea . ___MASK85___ is an autonomous constituent country within the Danish Realm between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans , east ___MASK29___ the Canadian Arctic Archipelago . Though physiographically a part ___MASK29___ the continent ___MASK29___ North America , ___MASK85___ has been politically and culturally associated with Europe ( specifically Norway and Denmark , the colonial powers , as well as the nearby island ___MASK29___ Iceland ) for more than a millennium . The majority ___MASK29___ its residents are Inuit , whose ancestors migrated began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century , gradually settling across the island . ___MASK100___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom ___MASK29___ ___MASK100___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion ___MASK29___ the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago ___MASK29___ Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part ___MASK29___ the Kingdom . ___MASK100___ also lays claim to a section ___MASK29___ Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän .