Kangilinnguit
Kangilinnguit is a town in Sermersooq, Greenland and has about 164 residents. Kangilinnguit is situated nearby to the hamlet Ivittuut.Photo: Heb, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Town with 164 residents
- Description: settlement and location of a former naval base in Greenland
- Also known as: “Bluie West Seven”, “Green Valley”, and “Kangilínguit”
- Historically known as: “Groennedal”, “Grondal”, and “Grønnedal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ivittuut.
Ivittuut
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ivittuut is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq municipality on the ruins of the former Norse Middle Settlement. Ivittuut is situated 4½ km southwest of Kangilinnguit.
Kangilinnguit
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Sermersooq, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.23182° or 61° 13′ 55″ northLongitude
-48.09926° or 48° 5′ 57″ westPopulation
164Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)IATA airport code
JGRUnited Nations Location Code
GL JGROpen location code
98HH6WJ2+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 12798990884OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3423634Wikidata ID
Q585403
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Kangilinnguit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانيلينجويت”
- Bulgarian: “Кангилингуит”
- Catalan: “Green Valley”
- Catalan: “Grønnedal”
- Catalan: “Kangilínguit”
- Catalan: “Kangilinnguit”
- Cebuano: “Kangilinnguit”
- Czech: “Kangilinnguit”
- Danish: “Grønnedal”
- Danish: “Kangilinnguit”
- Dutch: “Kangilinnguit”
- French: “Kangilinnguit”
- Georgian: “კანგილინგუიტი”
- German: “Kangilinnguit”
- Icelandic: “Kangilinnguit”
- Italian: “Kangilinnguit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangilinnguit”
- Norwegian: “Kangilinnguit”
- Polish: “Kangilinnguit”
- Portuguese: “Kangilinnguit”
- Russian: “Кангилиннгуит”
- Spanish: “Kangilinnguit”
- Swedish: “Kangilinnguit”
- Uzbek: “Kangilinnguit”
- “Kangilinnguit”
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