Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.

Del., told CNN host Dana Bash on Monday that he thinks average middle Americans cannot find the country of Greenland on a map.

Renewed interest in Greenland ... Europe, closer to the North Pole and South Pole got distorted. So, Antarctica, Greenland ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms ... In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was ...

For example, Europe looks larger than it is and Africa ... To Danforth, such azimuthal maps, which show Greenland not as particularly large but as strategically central, demonstrate its importance ...

Democrat Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told CNN Monday that the “average middle American” is too dumb to identify Greenland on a world map. Coons criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to ...

“SHOWING THEIR TRUE COLORS: Democrat Sen. @ChrisCoons thinks ‘your average Middle American’ is too stupid to find Greenland on a map.” Trump reiterated his reasons for acquiring Greenland ...

It’s Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, one of America’s closest allies. “I love maps,” Trump once explained. “And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive.