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Greenland.

Greenland

A large self-governing territory in North America that is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
(obsolete) Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
A surname.
A city in Arkansas
A village in Barbados
A ghost town in California
An unincorporated community in Colorado
A town in New Hampshire
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
An unincorporated community in West Virginia

a large self-governing island in North America

Arabic: جِرِينْلَانْدَ f ‎(girinlanda)
Aragonese: Gronlandia f
Armenian: Գրենլանդիա ‎(Grenlandia)
Asturian: Groenlandia (ast) f
Bashkir: Гренландия ‎(Grenlandiya)
Belarusian: Грэнла́ндыя f ‎(Hrenlándyja)
Bengali: গ্রিনল্যান্ড ‎(grinlænḑ)
Breton: Greunland
Bulgarian: Гренла́ндия f ‎(Grenlándija)
Catalan: Grenlàndia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 格陵蘭 (zh), 格陵兰 (zh) ‎(Gélínglán)
Czech: Grónsko (cs) n
Danish: Grønland (da)
Dutch: Groenland (nl)
Esperanto: Groenlando
Estonian: Gröönimaa (et)
Faroese: Grønland n
Finnish: Grönlanti (fi)
French: Groenland (fr) m
Galician: Grenlandia (gl) f
Georgian: გრენლანდია ‎(grenlandia)
German: Grönland (de) n
Greek: Γροιλανδία (el) f ‎(Groilandía)
Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat (kl)
Hawaiian: ʻĀina ʻŌmaʻomaʻo
Hebrew: גרינלנד ‎(grinland)
Hindi: ग्रीनलैण्ड (hi) ‎(grīnlaiṇḍ)
Hungarian: Grönland (hu)
Icelandic: Grænland (is) n
Italian: Groenlandia (it) f
Japanese: グリーンランド (ja) ‎(Gurīnrando)
Norman: Groenland m, Greenland m
Kalenjin: Grinlande
Kamba: Grinlandi
Kazakh: Гренландия ‎(Grenlandïya)
Khmer: ប្រទេសបៃតង ‎(prɑteih bay tɑɑng), ហ្គ្រិនលែនដ៍ ‎(griinlɛɛn), បៃតង (km) ‎(bay tɑɑŋ)
Kikuyu: Grinlandi
Korean: 그린란드 ‎(Geurinnandeu)

Latvian: Grenlande
Luhya: Grinlandi
Luo: Grinland
Macedonian: Гре́нланд m ‎(Grénland)
Malagasy: Groenlanda
Maltese: Greenland, Grinlend
Manx: Greenlyn f
Maori: Kirinirana
Meru: Grinlandi
Mongolian: Гренланд ‎(Grenland)
Nahuatl: Groentlalpan
Navajo: Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé bikéyah
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Grønland

Nynorsk: Grønland
Occitan: Grenlàndia (oc) f, Groenlàndia (oc) f
Old Norse: Grǿnland n, Grǿnaland n
Persian: گرینلند ‎(grinland)
Polish: Grenlandia (pl)
Portuguese: Groenlândia (pt) f, Gronelândia (pt) f
Romanian: Groenlanda f
Russian: Гренла́ндия f ‎(Grenlándija)
Scots: Greenland
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Гренланд m, Гринланд m

Roman: Grenland (sh) m, Grinland m (Serbo-Croatian)
Slovak: Grónsko (sk) n
Slovene: Grénlándija (sl) f
Spanish: Groenlandia (es) f
Swahili: Grinlandi (sw)
Swedish: Grönland (sv) n
Tagalog: Lupanlunti
Tajik: Гренландия (tg) ‎(Grenlandiya)
Thai: กรีนแลนด์ ‎(greenlaen)
Turkish: Grönland (tr)
Turkmen: Grenlandiýa
Ukrainian: Гренла́ндія f ‎(Hrenlándija), Ґренла́ндія f ‎(Grenlándija)
Vietnamese: Greenland (vi)
Volapük: Gröneän (vo), (older term, obsolete) Grönän
Welsh: Yr Ynys Las f

From Old Norse Grœnland, from grœnn ‎(“green”) + land ‎(“land”).

Greenland