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Post from the world’s largest island

With an area of over 2 million km2 Greenland is the world’s largest non-continental island. However with a total population of less than 60,000, spread across some sixty or so settlements, it is also one of the least densely populated territories in the world.

The volumes of internal, domestic mail have therefore always been low and, although Greenland issued its first full service postage

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