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GREENLAND At a Glance Population 58,000 (U.S.: 335 million) Area 836,330 square miles (U.S.: 3,796,742) Per Capita GDP $41,800 (U.S.: $60,200) Life Expectancy 73.7 years (U.S.: 80.4 years) source; wosld factbook icj a.) Greenland is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords, and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea. "The discovery of rare earths in Greenland is important and significant for several reasons", says Mikaa Mered, a Greenland expert at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. The kind of rare earth minerals found in Greenland are used in many high-demand products. [Extracted from the article]