Map shows the real dimension of Grolândia (and Portugal is there)

The largest island in the world goes to elections – and we’ve never been so attentive. Curious map gives the idea of ​​the size of this cold territory.

For the first time, the world will be put on your eyes on Elections in Grolândia. The summary, well caught, is from.

This Tuesday the almost 56 thousand inhabitants From the cold territory go to votes. Parliament has only 31 Deputies. Only six parties compete, and two of them in coalition – which is in government.

One of those parties that governs, if it is again in the executive, has already assured that afterwards there will be a referendum on the independence.

It should be noted that Gronelândia is a Denmark Territory. It has autonomy, its parliament, its Prime Minister; But central decisions, strategies, come from Copenhagen.

Now, after the announced intention to want to attach Granelândia, the interest in realizing: voters want to continue living in Denmark? Want to be independent? Are they belonging to the almost neighbors USA?

The most repeated scenario is that local inhabitants They really want independence. They do not want to be, neither Danes nor Americans.

Interest

Granelândia, despite its considerable size of more than 2 million km², have few people. It is that 80% of the territory is always covered in ice. It is a cold island, near the North Pole.

But it has a great geopolitical relevance, underlines a. Is in the arctic; It is crucial for global trade and security, especially for countries such as USA, Russia and China.

The island – and this interests the US President – has a lot Natural Resources: Minerals, oil and gas, in addition to other raw materials. Although it is difficult to communicate, transit: there are no motorways, for example.

But yours ecosystem It is being greatly affected by climate change. Polar defrost accelerates, temperatures rise; The permanently cold soil is disappearing and biodiversity is lost, which may have a great impact globally.

The size

We have already mentioned that Grolândia has over 2 million km². Specifically 2.166 million km².

Okay, but what does it mean? Is it greater than Portugal?

Of course. In fact, it highlights, There would be up to several European countries: Portugal, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and… Denmark. And there was still some space left.

The curious comparison, which gives rise to the image we reproduce at the beginning of this article, is made through the site – and Portugal is there in the “South Pole”, yellow; even at the end below.

However, it is not just the cotton that deceives. You .

It is true that Granelândia is too big but not as big as we thought. It is the idea we stayed in seeing the maps we see from primary school.

The newspaper points out, for example, that the Danish Island is 14 times smaller than Africa. Yes, whole Africa, which has 30 million km².

And on a normal map they even look like the same size. Or maybe it is the idea that Granelândia is bigger. None of that.