Which national park in Greenland is the largest in the world by area?

Northeast Greenland National Park is the world’s largest national park by area. It covers about 972,000 square kilometres across Greenland’s remote northeastern interior and coastline.

The park was established in 1974 from a largely uninhabited part of eastern Greenland. In 1988, it expanded by approximately 272,000 square kilometres to reach its present size. The territory includes sections of the Greenland Ice Sheet, vast coastal landscapes, fjords, glaciers, mountains, and ice-free areas such as Peary Land.

Despite its enormous size, the park has no permanent human population. Around 400 sites may receive occasional summer use, while research stations, military facilities, patrol teams, and expedition camps operate temporarily. The extreme climate and difficult access mean that annual visitation is tiny compared with more accessible national parks.

It is also the northernmost national park on Earth and Greenland’s only national park. A common mix-up is comparing it with Kruger, Denali, or Wrangell–St. Elias; those are major parks, but none approaches Greenland’s area. Most of the park’s surface is ice-covered or exceptionally remote.