Greenland Greenland Greenland (, ; , ) is an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, as well as the nearby island of Iceland) for more than a millennium. The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island. Greenland is the world's largest island. Australia and Antarctica
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic occupations of livestock raising and beekeeping remain important economic activities. Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; , "Bashkirskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika"); also known as Soviet Bashkiria or simply Bashkiria was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian SFSR. Currently it is known as Bashkortostan. Bashkir ASSR was the first Autonomous Soviet Republic in RSFSR. The republic occupied an area of in the far south-eastern corner of European Russia, bounded on the east by the Ural Mountains and within seventy kilometers of the Kazakhstan border at its southernmost point. The region was settled