This is a list of terrestrial ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF identifies terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions.. The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 biogeographic realms, containing 867 smaller ecoregions.Each ecoregion is classified into one of 14 major habitat types, or biomes.. In 2017 the WWF team …

Inuit Nunangat (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t ˈ n u n æ ŋ æ t /; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ /inuit nunaŋat/; lit. "lands, waters and ices of the [Inuit] people") is the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. This Arctic homeland consists of four northern Canadian regions called the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Inuvialuit Nunangat, home of the Inuvialuit and the northern portion of the ...

Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.Greenland is the world's largest island. It is one of three constituent countries that …

Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule people, who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 CE. They had split from the related Aleut group about 4000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants. They spread eastward across the Arctic. They displaced the related Dorset culture, called the Tuniit in Inuktitut, which was the last major …

Grönland (grönländisch Kalaallit Nunaat [kaˈlaːɬːitˢʰ nuˈnaːtˢʰ], dänisch Grønland [ˈɡ̊ʁɶnlanʔ]) ist ein autonomer Bestandteil des Königreichs Dänemark.Der größte Teil der Landesfläche besteht aus der größten Insel der Erde, gelegen im Nordatlantik bzw. Arktischen Ozean.Grönland wird geografisch zu Nordamerika und geologisch zu dessen arktischer Teilregion gezählt.

The Iñupiat (or Inupiat, Iñupiaq or Inupiaq;) are a group of Alaska Natives, whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. Their current communities include 34 villages across Iñupiat Nunaat (Iñupiaq lands) including seven Alaskan villages in the North Slope Borough, affiliated …

Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland.The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list).Greenland has a 1.2 kilometre (0.75 mi) long border with Canada on Hans Island.A sparse …

The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska. The term culture of the Inuit, therefore, refers primarily …

An inuksuk (plural inuksuit) or inukshuk (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ; alternatively inukhuk in Inuinnaqtun, iñuksuk in Iñupiaq, inussuk in Greenlandic) is a type of stone landmark or cairn built by, and for the use of, Inuit, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik, and other peoples of the Arctic region of North America. These structures are found in northern Canada ...

Midtjylland Nordjylland Syddanmark Hovedstaden Sjælland Regiuni Comune Nume în română Nume în daneză Reședința Cel mai mare oraș Populația (1 ianuarie 2008) Suprafața (km²) Densitatea (pop. pe km²) Nr. de comune Regiunea Capitalei Danemarcei Region Hovedstaden Hillerød Copenhaga 1,645,825 2,561 642.6 29 (listă) Regiunea Danemarca Centrală Region …

Tundra (fiń. tunturi – „łysa góra”) – bezdrzewna formacja roślinna kształtująca się w zimnym klimacie strefy arktycznej i subarktycznej na półkuli północnej Ziemi.Charakteryzuje się występowaniem gleb tundrowych, stale zamarzniętym podglebiem i bardzo niską pokrywą roślinną, zdominowaną przez mchy i porosty.Wyróżnia się cztery podstawowe typy tundry (w …

Le détroit Scoresby, aussi appelé d'après les toponymes danois Scoresby Sund et groenlandais Kangertittivaq, est un fjord situé sur la côte est du Groenland.Le fjord fait partie de la municipalité de Sermersooq et il est relié à la mer du Groenland.Au niveau mondial, avec une superficie totale qui recouvre 13 700 km 2, le détroit Scoresby se présente comme étant le plus vaste ...

Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra: Greenland: Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra: Greenland: Low Arctic tundra: Canada: Middle Arctic tundra: Canada: Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra: Canada, United States: Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra: Canada United States: Torngat Mountain tundra: Canada: Palearctic realm; Arctic desert ...

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