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Global powers vie for vast mineral wealth of Greenland, caught in the crossfire of Western resource independence, Arctic security.
Far from the halls of Washington and Copenhagen, where political posturing has placed it unwittingly at the center of an escalating dispute over its resource potential, Greenland sits on a wealth of untapped resources critical to the world’s technological and strategic future.
Long enduring as a land of resilient communities and Arctic majesty, the island has become the focus of global powers vying for control over rare earths, graphite, and other minerals and metals essential to clean energy, defense, and industry.
Spanning over 830 million square miles (2.1 million square kilometers), Greenland is the world’s largest island, yet its population of roughly 57,000 makes it one of the most sparsely inhabited places on Earth. Comparable in size to Mexico but with fewer residents than a small American town, the land is dominated by ice sheets, towering fjords, and scattered coastal settlements where subsistence fishing and hunting remain vital to daily life.
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