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Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it is. President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing ...
President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...