Kangeq
Kangeq or Kangek is a former settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It is located on the same island that formed the first Danish-Norwegian colony on Greenland between 1721 and 1728.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Kangeq
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: abandoned hamlet in Greenland
- Categories: abandoned hamlet and locality
- Location: Sermersooq, Greenland, North America
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Latitude
64.10944° or 64° 6′ 34″ north
Longitude
-52.05157° or 52° 3′ 6″ west
Open location code
98P94W5X+Q9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Spanish—“Kangeq” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Kangeq”
- Danish: “Kangeq”
- Danish: “Kangeĸ”
- Dutch: “Kangeq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانجيك”
- Finnish: “Kangeq”
- French: “Kangeq”
- German: “Kangeq”
- Hebrew: “קאנגק”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangeq”
- Norwegian: “Kangeq”
- Polish: “Kangeq”
- Portuguese: “Håbets Ø”
- Portuguese: “Kangek”
- Portuguese: “Kangeq”
- Russian: “Кангек”
- Spanish: “Kangeq”
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