Nuuk
Appearance
Nuuk Godthåb | |||||||
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Ceety | |||||||
Nuussuaq destrict o Nuuk wi the Sermitsiaq moontain in the backgrund | |||||||
Coordinates: 64°10′30″N 51°44′20″W / 64.17500°N 51.73889°WCoordinates: ![]() | |||||||
Constituent kintra | ![]() | ||||||
Municipality | ![]() | ||||||
Founded | 29 August 1728 | ||||||
Incorporated | 1728 | ||||||
Govrenment | |||||||
• Mayor | Asii Chemnitz Narup (Inuit Ataqatigiit) | ||||||
Area | |||||||
• Ceety | 690 km2 (265 sq mi) | ||||||
Elevation | 5 m (16 ft) | ||||||
Population (2016) | |||||||
• Ceety | 17,316[1] (Lairgest in Greenland) | ||||||
• Metro | 18,040 (includin Qeqertarsuatsiaat an Kapisillit) | ||||||
Ceety an metropolitan population is co-extensive, the entire Metro aurie belangs tae Nuuk Ceety | |||||||
Demonym(s) | Nuummioq | ||||||
Time zone | UTC−03:00 (Wastren Greenland Staundart) | ||||||
• Summer (DST) | UTC−02:00 (Wastren Greenland Daylicht) | ||||||
Postal code |
Nuuk (pronunciation (help·info), translatit: "The peninsula", Dens: Godthåb, translatit: "Guid howp") is the caipital o Greenland, the northrenmaist caipital in North Americae an the lairgest ceety in Greenland. Locatit on a island in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, the ceety lies on the eastren shore o the Labrador Sea an on the wast coast o Sermersooq. Nuuk is a lairger cultural an economic centre for Greenland. The caipital is naurest tae the ceeties o Iqaluit an St. John's in Canadae, an Reykjavík in Iceland.
Nuuk is the seat o govrenment for the Sermersooq municipality. It haes a population o 15,469 (as o Januar 2010),[2] makkin it ane o the smawest caipital ceeties in the warld bi population.
Twin towns and sister cities
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Cuxhaven,
Germany
- Aalborg,
Denmark (syne 2002)
- Vantaa,
Finland (since 1965)
- Changchun,
Cheenae
- Tiverton,
USA
- Lyngby-Taarbæk,
Denmark
- Huddinge,
Swaden
Reykjavík,
Iceland
- Ushuaia,
Argentinae
- Bocas Toun,
Panama
- Sorong,
Indonesie
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Population in Greenland. CITYPOPULATION. Retrieved 23 Februar 2016.
- ↑ Statistics Greenland, Greenland in Figures, 2010 Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
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