Of Greenland's estimated total population of 58,000, 88% are Inuit. The balance of the population is mostly Danish. Although these indigenous people are collectively known as Inuit, most of these Greenlanders are broken down in to three sub-groups: Inughuit, Tunumiit, and Kalaallit.

In Greenland “typical” Greenlanders are dark-skinned, straight- and black-haired — looking like a mix between Japanese and Native American (which makes sense to me, as I think we/they stem from the same “ethnic line”).

Greenland has around 56,000 inhabitants. They mostly live in the 20 % of the country that is not covered by ice and snow. The first humans to set foot on Greenland arrived some 4,000-5,000 years ago from the North American continent via Canada, after the sea froze in the narrow strait at Thule in Northern Greenland.

The prehistory of Greenland is a story of repeated waves of Paleo-Inuit immigration from the islands north of the North American mainland. (The population of those islands are thought to have descended, in turn, from inhabitants of Siberia who migrated into North America through Beringia thousands of years ago.)