Kangaatsiaq
Kangaatsiaq is a town located in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland. The town received town status as recently as 1986, though as a settlement it has existed much longer.
- Type: Town with 469 residents
- Description: town in Greenland
- Also known as: “Kangatsiak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kangaatsiaq Heliport.
Kangaatsiaq Heliport
Helipad
Kangaatsiaq Heliport is a heliport in Kangaatsiaq, a village in Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.
Kangaatsiaq
- Categories: city, municipality, and locality
- Location: Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
68.30915° or 68° 18′ 33″ north
Longitude
-53.46149° or 53° 27′ 41″ west
Population
469
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
QPW
United Nations Location Code
GL QPW
Open location code
98W88G5Q+MC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Kangaatsiaq” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կանգաատսիակ”
- Asturian: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Catalan: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Cebuano: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Czech: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Danish: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Danish: “Kangâtsiaq”
- Dutch: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “ᑲᖔᑦᓯᐊᖅ”
- Finnish: “Kangaatsiaq”
- French: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Georgian: “კანგაატსიაკი”
- German: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Icelandic: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Indonesian: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Italian: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Japanese: “カンガートシャク”
- Kalaallisut: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Korean: “캉옷시아크”
- Macedonian: “Кангарсијак”
- Macedonian: “Кангатсијак”
- Northern Frisian: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Norwegian: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਙਾਤਸੀਆਕ”
- Polish: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Portuguese: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Romanian: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Russian: “Кангаатсиак”
- Sinhala: “කන්ගාට්සියාක්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Spanish: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Swedish: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Uzbek: “Kangaatsiaq”
- Western Panjabi: “کانگاتسیاک”
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