Greenland is home to some 56,000 people. The largest group are the Kalullit, relativesof the Inuit peoples of northern Canada, Alaska andChukotka in Russia. At their closest, Canada and Greenland are separated by just 26 kin of water. Immediately west of Greenland, on Baffin Island, live about 7,000 Canadian Inuit, while another 10,000 live in adjacent areas of the Canadian Eastern Arctic.