| Colony of Greenland | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colony of Denmark | |||||||||||
| 1950–1953 | |||||||||||
 The Colony of Greenland and the then Kingdom of Denmark in 1952, highlighted in green and light green respectively | |||||||||||
| Capital | Godthåb (Nuuk) | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | Monarchy Colony | ||||||||||
| King | |||||||||||
• 1950–1953 | Frederik IX | ||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||
• 1950–1953 | Poul Hugo Lundsteen | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Post-war | ||||||||||
| 1950 | |||||||||||
| 5 June 1953 | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
The colony of Greenland was a Danish colony created in 1950 with the union of North Greenland and South Greenland, and was ruled by one governor. [1] In 1953, the colony of Greenland was made an integral and equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark as an amt , henceforth known as the County of Greenland up until July 1979. On 1 July 1979, Greenland became a rigsdel (an autonomous territory) within the Kingdom of Denmark.
