Greenland referendum

[big bad fab]

Just to open the thread:

Today, there is a referendum in Greenland on an enlarged autonomy, with a notion of a "Greenlander people".

Are some of you specialists of this potential new country ?

[big bad fab]

57 000 inhabitants (50 000 Inuits, 7 000 Dans)
39 000 voters

More or less, he size of Saint-Malo: Hashemite and others will understand.
But, Hashemite, it will be difficult to make a precise map !

Also, almost ten times Wasilla !
Maybe Sarah Palin could find a political renewal there in 2017 or later when Greenland may become independent...

[big bad fab]

Results:

Yes 21 355 (75,54%)

No 6 663 (23,57%)

Invalid/blank 250 (0,89%)

Voters 28 268, on a potential total of 39 285 (tunrout 71,96%).

We've even got local results !
See http://www.valg.gl/Default.aspx

I'm not very fluent in Danish, but it seems as if, inside Nuuk (municipality, not town), Pituffik (a "settlement") has voted NO (sure, with only 38 votes...).

Good luck, Hashemite.

[big bad fab]

Canada should offer to buy them up, creating the Greenland Territory. US Government is too busy throwing cash at banks anyways. It would eliminate the dispute over Hans Island.

We should have offered to get Iceland out of its bankruptcy and made it the Iceland Province, but Putin was quicker.

Why not putting together Alaska, Yukon, Canadian North East, Nunavut and Greenland (and Iceland ?), with Sarah Palin, aka Saraaq Puliinutuuq, as President of this Great North Confederation, which would of course need to have its own nuclear arms, facing Russian threats...

Sorry for this bad joke, as we're not in a "What if?" thread and as there may be some Inuits among Leip's forum members or guests who would not laugh at it...

[big bad fab]

Congratulations again to our Hashemite !

I think the 2 places for which you don't have data are the Greenland National Park, so there are only white bears, seals and "boeufs musqués".