Northeast Greenland National Park

I encourage you to look up in Wikipedia and elsewhere the world's first geologic map of England and Wales in southern Scotland, William Smith, 1810.

And finally, our geographic oddity for this week is Northeast Greenland National Park.

Now, you've no doubt thought about, during this podcast and other podcasts on geography and other things that you've read, How species can be protected? One way is through parks and wildlife preserves.

There are more than 6,500 national parks or protected areas in the world, though the exact number varies because the definition of a national park can differ between countries.

Can you guess where the world's largest protected area is? The answer may surprise you.

At the current time, it is in Greenland.

Northeast Greenland National Park, and I'm not going to try to pronounce it in Greenlandic or in Danish, but look it up if you're interested.

It's the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area.