Why are all of Greenland's cities coastal?

Most of the world's population is coastal. Greenland has a very small population only about 56,000, which is a small town anywhere else. So its "cities" are tiny. Nuuk is the only only that you could consider a town at all really and even that is tiny. read more

Greenland’s cities are all costal because nobody wants to live in the middle of a frozen Arctic wasteland. The coastal regions are still cold and frozen, but at least there’s the ocean to see. The Greenlandic interior is mostly mountains and ice, and there’s essentially no reason to live there. read more

The term 'city' is loosely used to describe any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 17,796 inhabitants. In Greenland two kinds of settled areas are distinguished: illoqarfik (Greenlandic for 'town'; by in Danish) and nunaqarfik (Greenlandic for 'settlement'; bygd in Danish). read more

The complete melting of Greenland’s coastal ice could raise global sea levels by about 1.5 inches, researchers said. It’s an increase that could impact some islands and low-lying coastal areas through flooding, erosion and other effects. But according to the study’s authors, there’s much more at stake than even that. read more

Greenland is the largest island in the world (continents don’t count as islands—if they did, everything would be an island), except some archeologists think that Greenland’s ice has weighed down the land so much that if you removed the ice, Greenland would actually be a group of smaller islands now, not one big one. read more