Northeast Greenland National Park
Also known as Avannaarsuani Tunumilu Nuna Allanngutsaaliugaq
national park in Greenland
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Northeast Greenland National Park is a protected area located in Greenland that preserves a significant portion of the Arctic landscape. It protects important Arctic ecosystems and wildlife habitat in one of the world's most remote regions.
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- Official name
- Nationalparken i Nord- og Østgrønland
- Population
- 100
- Area
- 97200000
- Image
- Franz Josef Fjord, glacier.jpg
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- Commons category
- Northeast Greenland National Park
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- Northeast Greenland National Park
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve URL
- www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/europe-north-america/denmark/north-east-greenland
- inception
- 1974-01-01
- native label
- Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq
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Northeast Greenland National Park (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, Danish: Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its present size in 1988. It protects 972,000 km (375,000 mi) of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is larger than the area of Tanzania, but smaller than that of Egypt. This means that the national park is bigger than 166 of the world's 195 countries. It was the first national park to be created in the Kingdom of Denmark and remains Greenland's only national park. It is the northernmost national park in the world and the second-largest by area of any second-level subdivision of any country in the world, trailing only the Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, Canada.
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