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Nuuk (Godthåb) by night in April 2023, Greenland's capital and by far largest city. This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 1 January 2024.The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants, amounting to about 35% of the total population. [1]
Greenland [e] is a self-governing country [13] within the Kingdom of Denmark. [14] It is the largest of three constituent territories of the kingdom, the other two being metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of both territories are full citizens of Denmark.
The municipality is located in south-central and eastern Greenland, with an area of 531,900 km 2 (205,367.7 sq mi). [2] As of 2018, it is the largest municipality in the world by area, following the split of the former Qaasuitsup. [5] As of January 2013 its population was 17,498. [6]
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Under new regulations in 1950, two councils amalgamated into one. This Countryside Council was abolished on 1 May 1979, when the city of Godthåb was renamed Nuuk by the Greenland Home Rule government. The city boomed during the 1950s when Denmark began to modernize Greenland. As in Greenland as a whole, Nuuk is populated today by both Inuit ...
Settlements in Greenland with city/town status (bystatus). For settlements without city status, see Category:Populated places in Greenland. Subcategories.
The city has its own bus line, and is the northernmost year-round ice-free port in the country, a shipping base for western and northwestern Greenland. Supply ships head from the commercial port towards smaller settlements in more remote regions of Uummannaq Fjord , Upernavik Archipelago , and as far as Qaanaaq in northern Greenland.