Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest protected park on Earth, covering 357,917 square miles and containing 40% of the world’s musk ox population. It is located in the Arctic and home to various animal species.
The largest protected park on Earth is Northeast Greenland National Park, which is approximately 357,917 square miles (927,000 square km) or about twice the size of the state of California. It was established in 1974 and contains about 40% of the world’s musk ox population. Other animal species living in Northeast Greenland National Park include walruses, snowy owls, polar bears and arctic foxes. Due to its arctic location, the park area barely reaches temperatures above freezing in the summer, gets little sunlight, and is extremely dark for about four months of the year.
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Northeast Greenland National Park is larger in size than all but 30 countries in the world.
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