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Iceland
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Ireland
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Cuba
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Greenland
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Detailed explanation-1: -Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Thursday confirmed that the United States was no longer interested in buying Greenland, scuttling for good a quixotic 2019 proposal by the Trump administration to annex the self-governing Danish territory. “I can confirm that’s correct,” Mr.
Detailed explanation-2: -The island is rich in, among others, gold, diamonds, uranium, iron, zinc, crude oil and natural gas. Moreover, there is even a quarter of the world’s reserves of the so-called “rare earth elements” (REEs), which are crucial for the development of advanced technologies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Home to 56,000 people, Greenland has its own extensive local government, but it is also part of the Realm of Denmark. Despite the distance between Greenland and Denmark - about 3532 km between their capitals - Greenland has been associated with Denmark politically and culturally for a millennium.
Detailed explanation-4: -Not only does Greenland have extraordinary reserves of rare-earth metals that are crucial to the manufacture of electronics equipment.