GL — Greenland

Greenland is the world's largest island, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk, the capital, is the largest city. Despite being geographically in North America, Greenland is politically part of the Danish realm and culturally tied to Europe. Greenland uses the Danish Krone (DKK). For developers, the GL country code and .gl domain are notable — the .gl ccTLD has been popular for URL shorteners and domain hacking. The +299 dialing code serves Greenland's sparse telecommunications network. The kl-GL locale handles Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), an Inuit language with very long agglutinative words. Greenland's geographic classification is interesting — it's in North America physically but classified under Denmark in many systems. Greenland withdrew from the EEC (EU predecessor) in 1985, the only territory to have done so, making it relevant for EU/non-EU classification logic. The .gl domain's popularity as a generic short domain gives it far more registrations than Greenland's tiny population would suggest.