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Kangaatsiaq

Kangaatsiaq is a town located in the municipality in western . The town received town status as recently as 1986, though as a settlement it has existed much longer.
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  • Type: Town with 520 residents
  • Description: town in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Kangatsiak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kangaatsiaq Heliport.

Helipad
is a heliport in Kangaatsiaq, a village in municipality in western . The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.

Kangaatsiaq

Latitude
68.30915° or 68° 18′ 33″ north
Longitude
-53.46149° or 53° 27′ 41″ west
Population
520
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
QPW
United Nations Location Code
GL QPW
Open location code
98W88G5Q+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2051280944
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3422683
Wiki­data ID
Q612160
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Kangaatsiaq” goes by many names.
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kangaatsiaq”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.