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To which language should you translate to localize in Greenland?
LANGUAGE INSIGHT
Official language
Inuit (88%; 50k), Danish (11%; 6.2k)
Actual languages
Inuit (88%; 50k), Danish (11%; 6.2k) Icelandic (1%; 568)
What the top 150 best localized websites in the world do in Greenland
(Top 150 websites listed in the Global by Design ranking – published annually by Byte Level Research, this report provides a list of globally localized websites, showcasing best practices and emerging trends in their globalization)
- 2/150 localize by translating into Danish
- 1/150 localizes by translating into Inuit (Roman), Inuit (Syllabics), Greenlandic, Greenlandic (East) and Danish
- 1/150 localizes by translating into Inuit (Roman)
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3M
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ABB
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Accenture
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Adidas
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Adobe
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Airbnb
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Aldi
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Amazon
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American Airlines
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American Express
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Apple
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Audi
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Autodesk
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Avis
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Bayer
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BMW
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Booking.com
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Bosch
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British Airways
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Bumble
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Burberry
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BYD
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Canon
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Capgemini
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Cartier
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Caterpillar
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Chevrolet
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Cisco Systems
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Citibank
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Coca-Cola
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Costco
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Dell
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Deloitte
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Delta
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DHL
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Disney+
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Dyson
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eBay
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Eli Lilly
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Emirates
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Ernst & Young
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Facebook
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FedEx
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Ford
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Four Seasons
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Fujifilm
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GE
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Gillette
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GoDaddy
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Google
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Gucci
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Haier
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Heineken
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Hermès
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Hertz
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Hilton
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Hisense
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Hitachi
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Honda
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Hotels.com
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HP
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HP Enterprise
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HSBC
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Huawei
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Hyatt
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Hyundai
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IBM
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IKEA
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Intel
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InterContinental Hotels
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J&J
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Jack Daniel's
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
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John Deere
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Kellogg's
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Kia
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KPMG
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L'Oréal
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Land Rover
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LEGO
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Lenovo
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Lexus
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LG
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Louis Vuitton
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Lululemon
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LUSH
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Marriott
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MasterCard
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McDonald's
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Mercedes-Benz
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Merck
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Microsoft
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Mitsubishi Electric
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Nestlé
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Netflix
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Nike
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Nikon
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Nintendo
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Nio
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Nissan
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NIVEA
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Oracle
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Pampers
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Panasonic
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PayPal
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Pepsi
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Pfizer
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Philips
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Pitney Bowes
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Porsche
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Procter & Gamble
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PWC
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Revolut
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Rolex
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Royal Caribbean
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Salesforce
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Samsung
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Sanofi
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SAP
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Sephora
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Shopify
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Siemens
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Sony
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Spotify
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Starbucks
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Steelcase
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Stripe
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Subaru
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Tesla
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Tiffany
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Tinder
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Toshiba
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Toyota
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TripAdvisor
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Uber
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United Airlines
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UPS
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Visa
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Volkswagen
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Volvo Cars
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Vrbo
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Walmart
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Western Union
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Wikipedia
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Wise
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WordPress
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Workday
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Xerox
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Xiaomi (Mi)
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Zara
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Zoom
If you need others information, below you can find a selection of economic/social/cultural data
Overview
Language
Official language
Inuit (88%), Danish (11%)
T-index
0.0021%
T-Index ranks countries according to their potential for online sales.
Other languages
Icelandic (1%)
Demography
Capital: Nuuk
Currency: Danish Krone
Population: 56,865
Population density: 0.1/km2
Economy
GDP: 3.24 billion USD (2021)
GDP per capita: 57,116.3 USD (2021)
Exports: $1.66 billion (2023)
Statistics
Internet users: 81.3% penetration, 46.1 thousand
Unemployment rate: 3.7% (2021)
Urbanisation: 88% (2023)
Literacy: 100% (2023)
Conventions
Numbering system
Arabic numerals and comma as decimal separator, space as thousands separator
Date format: dd-mm-yyyy
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 00299
Language data sources: Worldatlas/Britannica//EF/Wikipedia; Demography data sources: IMF/Worldometers; Conventions data source: Wikipedia; Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal; Statistics data sources: Datareportal/WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF/Culturalatlas/Commisceoglobal
Facts and data
Economy
Imports
$1.11 billion (2023). Refined Petroleum ($250M), Fishing Ships ($91.9M), Other Furniture ($17.3M), Iron Toiletry ($15.9M), and Baked Goods ($14.4M), importing mostly from Denmark ($647M), Sweden ($211M), Spain ($90.3M), Iceland ($72.3M), and Canada ($18.4M).
Exports
$1.66 billion (2023). Non-fillet Frozen Fish ($579M), Crustaceans ($568M), Processed Crustaceans ($261M), Fish Fillets ($130M), and Dried/Salted/Smoked/Brined Fish ($25.4M), exporting mostly to Denmark ($830M), China ($380M), United Kingdom ($89.7M), Japan ($79.6M), and Germany ($49.6M).
Economy data sources: WTO/OEC/CIA/Esomar/Datareportal
Service Imports (2006)
Service Exports (2006)
Source: OEC
Trade balance of goods from 2013 to 2023
Source: Statista
Historical Data Trade Imports
The following section uses historical trade data imports from partners of Greenland.
Historical Data Trade Exports
The following section uses historical trade data exports from partners of Greenland.
Source: OEC
The Top Export Opportunities for Greenland by Relatedness
Relatedness measures the distance between a country's current exports and each product by showing only products that Greenland is not specialized in.
Greenland's Most Complex Exports
The Product Complexity Index (PCI) measures the knowledge intensity of a product by considering the knowledge intensity of its exporters.
Source: OEC
Greenland's Most Specialized Products
Specialization is measured using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), an index that takes the ratio between Greenland observed and expected exports in each product.
Source: OEC
Market Growth Imports (2006)
This score represents the likelihood that the given country will start importing that product in the next few years. It forecasts the opening of a new specific market.
Market Growth Exports (2006)
This score represents the likelihood that the given country will start exporting that product in the next few years. It forecasts the opening of a new specific market.
Source: OEC
T-index
Reach most of the online purchasing power
T-Index ranks countries according to their potential for online sales. It estimates the market share of each country in relation to global e-commerce.
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Media language Danish
Information channels
Kalaallit Nunaata Radio (KNR) – the Greenland Broadcasting Company – provides public radio and TV services across the island. Broadcasting in Greenlandic and Danish, it is the main source of news and entertainment.
Private local TV and radio stations operate under an umbrella body, STTK. Digital pay TV is available in Nuuk. Danish public radio is rebroadcast.
There are no daily newspapers. The major titles – a weekly and a bi-weekly – publish in Greenlandic and Danish. Weather conditions can delay distribution.
The Greenlandic government controls media legislation. Officially, press freedom is guaranteed. But the independence of local journalists has been questioned, with cases of media workers coming under apparent political pressure.
Television
Kalaallit Nunaata Radio (KNR) – public TV and radio
Nanoq Media – private TV and radio, also a service provider of broadband internet and digital TV
The press
Atuagagdliutit/Gronlandsposten (AG) – published twice weekly
Sermitsiaq – weekly
Media data source: BBC
Internet Data
Internet users
81.3% penetration, 46.1 thousands
Share of web traffic by device
55.18% mobile phones, 40.82% computers (laptops and desktops), 3.98% tablet devices, others 0.02%
Most used social media
Facebook (73.24%), Pinterest (10.55%), Instagram (10.28%), Twitter (3.07%), YouTube (1.17%), Reddit (1.03%), Tumblr (0.32%), other (0.35%).
Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 124.3%
Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 89.2%
Most popular web search engines
Google (89.99%), Bing (7.8%), DuckDuckGo (0.93%), Yahoo! (0.5%), Yandex (0.47%), other (0.09%).
Internet data sources: Datareportal/Statcounter
Social statistics
Life expectancy
72 years (2022)
CO2 emissions
8.22 metric tons per capita
Social statistics sources: WorldBank/UN/UNESCO/CEIC/IMF
Country Curiosities
Greenland’s name stems from a clever Viking marketing strategy. When Erik the Red was exiled, he wanted to attract settlers, so he named the island “Greenland” to make it sound more appealing, even though most of it is covered in ice. Interestingly, scientists believe that over 2.5 million years ago, Greenland was actually much greener. Recent studies have revealed that ancient soil has been frozen beneath two miles of ice for millions of years. In Greenlandic, the island is called Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning “Land of the Greenlanders,” or Inuit Nunaat, meaning “Land of the People.”
Additionally…
- Greenland is the largest island in the world that isn’t a continent.
- Despite its size, Greenland has one of the smallest populations.
- 80% of Greenland is covered by ice, with the Greenlandic Ice Sheet holding 7% of Earth’s fresh water.
- “Kayak” comes from Greenlandic ‘qajaq,’ invented by hunters.
- It has a 100% literacy rate among those over 15 years old.
- 88% of Greenland’s population is Inuit or of mixed Inuit-Danish descent.
- Greenlanders prefer the terms “Inuit” or “Kalaallit” over “Eskimo,” with “Kalaallit” meaning “Greenlander.”
- Greenland became self-governed, except for foreign policy, only in 2009.
- There are no roads connecting settlements; travel is by boat, plane, or snowmobile.
- Fishing is Greenland’s main industry; it imports nearly everything else.
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Languages spoken in Greenland
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