Greenland
Western Greenland
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Nuuk

Nuuk, also known by its Danish name of Godthåb, is the capital and administrative centre of , with a population of around 15,000. The city is sometimes accused of being rather soulless, with many high-rise blocks.
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  • Type: City with 18,300 residents
  • Description: capital of Greenland
  • Also known as: “Godthåb”, “Nuk”, and “Nûk”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Nuuk Airport and Public and National Library of Greenland.

Aerodrome
Photo: Laketown, CC0.
is an international airport serving Nuuk, the capital of . The airport is the hub and technical base for Air Greenland, the flag carrier airline of Greenland.

Library
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the public and national library of , located in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. It is the largest reference library in the country, devoted to the preservation of national cultural heritage and history.

Theater building
Photo: Alankomaat, Public domain.
Katuaq is a cultural centre in Nuuk, . It is used for concerts, exhibitions, conferences, and as a cinema. Designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, it was constructed as a joint project of the Greenland Home Rule Government, the Nuuk Municipal Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers and was inaugurated on 15 February 1997.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nuuk Centrum and Nuussuaq.

Suburb
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is a district of Nuuk, the capital of . Together with the neighborhood, it encompasses the southern and central part of the town. Most of the institutions and businesses are based in the district.

Quarter
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is a district of Nuuk, the capital of , It is located in the northern part of the city, west and southwest of , approximately 4 km outside the city center.

Neighborhood
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may refer to several neighborhoods of Nuuk, the capital of . The Lutheran mission was originally based on Hope Island at the head of the fjord but was moved to the mainland and christened Godthaab by the royal governor Claus Paarss in 1728.

Nuuk

Latitude
64.1836° or 64° 11′ 1″ north
Longitude
-51.7215° or 51° 43′ 17″ west
Population
18,300
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
GOH
United Nations Location Code
GL GOH
Open location code
98PC57MH+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 992046822
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3421319
Wiki­data ID
Q226
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In Other Languages

From Afar to Zulu—“Nuuk” goes by many names.
  • Afar: “Nuuk”
  • Afrikaans: “Godthåb”
  • Afrikaans: “Nuk”
  • Afrikaans: “Nûk”
  • Afrikaans: “Nuuk”
  • Albanian: “Godthåb”
  • Albanian: “Nuk”
  • Albanian: “Nûk”
  • Albanian: “Nuuk”
  • Amharic: “ኑክ”
  • Arabic: “نوك”
  • Aragonese: “Nuuk”
  • Armenian: “Nûk”
  • Armenian: “Նուուկ”
  • Arpitan: “Nuuk”
  • Asturian: “Godthåb”
  • Asturian: “Nuk”
  • Asturian: “Nûk”
  • Asturian: “Nuuk”
  • Aymara: “Nuuk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Godthåb”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nûk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuuk”
  • Bambara: “Nuuk”
  • Banjar: “Nuuk”
  • Basque: “Godthåb”
  • Basque: “Nuk”
  • Basque: “Nuuk”
  • Bavarian: “Godthåb”
  • Bavarian: “Nuk”
  • Bavarian: “Nûk”
  • Bavarian: “Nuuk”
  • Belarusian: “Гатхоб”
  • Belarusian: “Нук”
  • Belarusian: “Нуук”
  • Bengali: “নুক”
  • Betawi: “Nuuk”
  • Bislama: “Nuuk”
  • Bosnian: “Nuuk”
  • Brahui: “Nuuk”
  • Breton: “Godthåb”
  • Breton: “Nûk”
  • Breton: “Nuuk”
  • Bulgarian: “Нуук”
  • Catalan: “Godthåb”
  • Catalan: “Nuk”
  • Catalan: “Nûk”
  • Catalan: “Nuuk”
  • Cebuano: “Godthåb”
  • Cebuano: “Nuk”
  • Cebuano: “Nûk”
  • Cebuano: “Nuuk (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Nuuk”
  • Central Bikol: “Nuuk”
  • Central Kurdish: “نووک”
  • Chamorro: “Nuuk”
  • Chavacano: “Nuk”
  • Chavacano: “Nûk”
  • Chavacano: “Nuuk”
  • Chechen: “Нуук”
  • Cherokee: “Nuuk”
  • Cheyenne: “Nuuk”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Nuuk”
  • Chinese: “Nuuk”
  • Chinese: “努克”
  • Chinese: “哥特哈布”
  • Chinese: “戈特霍布”
  • Choctaw: “Nuuk”
  • Church Slavic: “Ноукъ”
  • Chuvash: “Нуук”
  • Corsican: “Nuk”
  • Corsican: “Nûk”
  • Corsican: “Nuuk”
  • Cree: “Nuuk”
  • Creek: “Nuuk”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nuuk”
  • Croatian: “Nuk”
  • Croatian: “Nûk”
  • Croatian: “Nuuk”
  • Czech: “Godthaab”
  • Czech: “Godthåb”
  • Czech: “Nuk”
  • Czech: “Nûk”
  • Czech: “Nuuk”
  • Danish: “Godthåb”
  • Danish: “Nûk”
  • Danish: “Nuuk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nuk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nûk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nuuk”
  • Dutch: “Godthåb”
  • Dutch: “Nuk”
  • Dutch: “Nûk”
  • Dutch: “Nuuk”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “Nuuk”
  • Eastern Mari: “Нуук”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نوك”
  • Esperanto: “Godthåb”
  • Esperanto: “Nuk”
  • Esperanto: “Nûk”
  • Esperanto: “Nuko”
  • Esperanto: “Nuuk”
  • Estonian: “Godthåb”
  • Estonian: “Nûk”
  • Estonian: “Nuuk”
  • Ewe: “Nuuk”
  • Extremaduran: “Nuuk”
  • Faroese: “Godthåb”
  • Faroese: “Nuk”
  • Faroese: “Nûk”
  • Faroese: “Nuuk”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nuuk”
  • Fijian: “Nuuk”
  • Finnish: “Godthåb”
  • Finnish: “Nook”
  • Finnish: “Nuk”
  • Finnish: “Nûk”
  • Finnish: “Nuuk (Godthåb)”
  • Finnish: “Nuuk”
  • French: “Godthåb”
  • French: “Nuk”
  • French: “Nûk”
  • French: “Nuuk (Godthåb)”
  • French: “Nuuk”
  • Friulian: “Nuuk”
  • Fulah: “Nuuk”
  • Gagauz: “Nuuk”
  • Galician: “Godthåb”
  • Galician: “Nuk”
  • Galician: “Nûk”
  • Galician: “Nuuk”
  • Georgian: “Nûk”
  • Georgian: “ნუუკი”
  • German: “Godthåb”
  • German: “Nuk”
  • German: “Nûk”
  • German: “Nuuk (Godthåb)”
  • German: “Nuuk”
  • Gheg Albanian: “Nuuk”
  • Gothic: “Nuuk”
  • Greek: “Nûk”
  • Greek: “Nuuk (Godthåb)”
  • Greek: “Νουούκ”
  • Guarani: “Nuuk”
  • Gujarati: “નૂક”
  • Haitian: “Nuuk”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nuuk”
  • Hausa: “Nuuk”
  • Hawaiian: “Nuuk”
  • Hebrew: “נואוק”
  • Hebrew: “נוק”
  • Herero: “Nuuk”
  • Hindi: “नुक”
  • Hiri Motu: “Nuuk”
  • Hungarian: “Godthåb”
  • Hungarian: “Nuk”
  • Hungarian: “Nûk”
  • Hungarian: “Nuuk”
  • Icelandic: “Godthåb”
  • Icelandic: “Nuk”
  • Icelandic: “Nûk”
  • Icelandic: “Nuuk”
  • Ido: “Godthab”
  • Ido: “Nuk”
  • Ido: “Nûk”
  • Ido: “Nuuk”
  • Igbo: “Nuuk”
  • Iloko: “Nuuk”
  • Inari Sami: “Nuuk”
  • Indonesian: “Nûk”
  • Indonesian: “Nuuk”
  • Interlingua: “Nuuk”
  • Interlingue: “Nûk”
  • Interlingue: “Nuuk”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓅᒃ”
  • Inupiaq: “Nuuk”
  • Irish: “Godthåb”
  • Irish: “Nûk”
  • Irish: “Nuuk”
  • Italian: “Godthåb”
  • Italian: “Nuk”
  • Italian: “Nûk”
  • Italian: “Nuuk (Godthåb)”
  • Italian: “Nuuk”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nuuk”
  • Japanese: “ヌーク”
  • Javanese: “Nuuk”
  • Kabyle: “Nuuk”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Nuuk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Godthåb”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nuk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nûk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nuuk”
  • Kannada: “ನುಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nuuk”
  • Kashubian: “Nuuk”
  • Kazakh: “Nuuk”
  • Kazakh: “Нуук қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Нуук”
  • Kazakh: “Нүүк”
  • Kikuyu: “Nuuk”
  • Kinaray-A: “Nuuk”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Godthåb”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nûk”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nuuk”
  • Kölsch: “Nuuk”
  • Komi: “Нук”
  • Kongo: “Nuuk”
  • Korean: “누크”
  • Kuanyama: “Nuuk”
  • Kurdish: “Nûk”
  • Kurdish: “Nuuk”
  • Ladino: “Godthåb”
  • Ladino: “Nuk”
  • Ladino: “Nûk”
  • Ladino: “Nuuk”
  • Latgalian: “Nūka”
  • Latgalian: “Nuuk”
  • Latin: “Godthåb”
  • Latin: “Nuk”
  • Latin: “Nûk”
  • Latin: “Nuuk”
  • Latvian: “Nuk”
  • Latvian: “Nûk”
  • Latvian: “Nūka”
  • Latvian: “Nuuka”
  • Laz: “Nuuk”
  • Ligurian: “Nuuk”
  • Limburgan: “Nuuk”
  • Lingala: “Nuuk”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nuuk”
  • Lithuanian: “Godthåb”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuk”
  • Lithuanian: “Nûk”
  • Lithuanian: “Nukas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuuk”
  • Lojban: “Nuuk”
  • Lombard: “Nuuk”
  • Low German: “Godthåb”
  • Low German: “Nuk”
  • Low German: “Nûk”
  • Low German: “Nuuk”
  • Lower Silesian: “Nuuk”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nuuk”
  • Lozi: “Nuuk”
  • Lushai: “Nuuk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nuk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nûk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nuuk”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Godthåb”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nûk”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nuuk”
  • Macedonian: “Нук”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Nuuk”
  • Malay: “Godthåb”
  • Malay: “Nûk”
  • Malay: “Nuuk”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂക്”
  • Maltese: “Nuuk”
  • Manx: “Godthåb”
  • Manx: “Nuk”
  • Manx: “Nûk”
  • Manx: “Nuuk”
  • Maori: “Godthåb”
  • Maori: “Nûk”
  • Maori: “Nuuk”
  • Mapudungun: “Nuuk”
  • Marathi: “नूक”
  • Mazanderani: “نوک”
  • Megleno Romanian: “Nuuk”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nuuk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Godthåb”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nûk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nuuk”
  • Minangkabau: “Nuuk”
  • Mingrelian: “ნუუკი”
  • Mirandese: “Nuuk”
  • Mongolian: “Нуук”
  • Narom: “Nuuk”
  • Nauru: “Nuuk”
  • Navajo: “Nuuk”
  • Ndonga: “Nuuk”
  • Neapolitan: “Nuuk”
  • Nepali: “नुक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Godthåb”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nuk”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nûk”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nuuk”
  • Northern Sami: “Godthåb”
  • Northern Sami: “Nuk”
  • Northern Sami: “Nûk”
  • Northern Sami: “Nuuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Godthåb”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nûk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Godthåb”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nûk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nuuk”
  • Norwegian: “Nuuk”
  • Novial: “Nûk”
  • Novial: “Nuuk”
  • Nyanja: “Nuuk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Godthåb”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nûk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuuk”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Godhopa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Godthåb”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nûk”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nuuk”
  • Oriya: “ନୁକ”
  • Oromo: “Nuuk”
  • Ossetian: “Нуук”
  • Pampanga: “Nuuk”
  • Pangasinan: “Nuuk”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੂਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Nûk”
  • Papiamento: “Nuuk”
  • Pedi: “Nuuk”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nuuk”
  • Persian: “نوک”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Nuuk”
  • Picard: “Godthåb”
  • Picard: “Nuk”
  • Picard: “Nûk”
  • Picard: “Nuuk”
  • Piemontese: “Godthåb”
  • Piemontese: “Nûk”
  • Piemontese: “Nuuk”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Godthåb”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nuk”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nûk”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nuuk”
  • Plautdietsch: “Nuuk”
  • Polish: “Godthåb”
  • Polish: “Nuk”
  • Polish: “Nûk”
  • Polish: “Nuuk”
  • Portuguese: “Godthåb”
  • Portuguese: “Nuk”
  • Portuguese: “Nûk”
  • Portuguese: “Nuuk”
  • Prussian: “Nuuk”
  • Quechua: “Nuuk”
  • Romanian: “Godthåb”
  • Romanian: “Nuk”
  • Romanian: “Nûk”
  • Romanian: “Nuuk”
  • Romansh: “Nuuk”
  • Rundi: “Nuuk”
  • Russian: “Нуук”
  • Sakizaya: “Nuke”
  • Samoan: “Nuuk”
  • Samogitian: “Godthåb”
  • Samogitian: “Nuk”
  • Samogitian: “Nûk”
  • Samogitian: “Nuuk”
  • Samogitian: “Nuuks”
  • Sango: “Nuuk”
  • Santali: “Nuuk”
  • Sardinian: “Nuuk”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Nuuk”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nuuk”
  • Scots: “Godthåb”
  • Scots: “Nuk”
  • Scots: “Nûk”
  • Scots: “Nuuk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nuuk”
  • Serbian: “Nuuk”
  • Serbian: “Нук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Godthåb”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nûk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nuuk”
  • Seri: “Nuuk”
  • Shona: “Nuuk”
  • Sicilian: “Godthåb”
  • Sicilian: “Nuk”
  • Sicilian: “Nûk”
  • Sicilian: “Nuuk”
  • Silesian: “Nuuk”
  • Sinhala: “නූක්”
  • Slovak: “Godthåb”
  • Slovak: “Nuk”
  • Slovak: “Nûk”
  • Slovak: “Nuuk”
  • Slovenian: “Godthåb”
  • Slovenian: “Nuk”
  • Slovenian: “Nûk”
  • Slovenian: “Nuuk”
  • Somali: “Nuuk”
  • Southern Sami: “Nuuk”
  • Southern Sotho: “Nuuk”
  • Spanish: “Godthåb”
  • Spanish: “Nuk”
  • Spanish: “Nûk”
  • Spanish: “Nuuk”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Nuuk”
  • Swahili: “Nûk”
  • Swahili: “Nuuk”
  • Swedish: “Godthåb”
  • Swedish: “Nuk”
  • Swedish: “Nûk”
  • Swedish: “Nuuk (Godthåb)”
  • Swedish: “Nuuk”
  • Swiss German: “Nuuk”
  • Tachelhit: “Nuuk”
  • Tagalog: “Nûk”
  • Tagalog: “Nuuk”
  • Tahitian: “Nuuk”
  • Tajik: “Nuuk”
  • Tajik: “Нуук”
  • Tamil: “நியூக்”
  • Tamil: “நூக்”
  • Tarifit: “Nuuk”
  • Tatar: “Nuuk”
  • Tatar: “Нуук”
  • Telugu: “న్యూక్”
  • Tetum: “Nuuk”
  • Thai: “นุก”
  • Tok Pisin: “Nuuk”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nuuk”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Nuuk”
  • Tsonga: “Nuuk”
  • Tswana: “Nuuk”
  • Tumbuka: “Nuuk”
  • Turkish: “Godthåb”
  • Turkish: “Nuk”
  • Turkish: “Nûk”
  • Turkish: “Nuuk”
  • Turkmen: “Nuk”
  • Turkmen: “Nûk”
  • Turkmen: “Nuuk”
  • Turoyo: “Nuuk”
  • Udmurt: “Нуук”
  • Uighur: “Nuuk”
  • Ukrainian: “Нуук”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nuuk”
  • Urdu: “نوک”
  • Uzbek: “Godthåb”
  • Uzbek: “Nuk”
  • Uzbek: “Nûk”
  • Uzbek: “Nuuk”
  • Venda: “Nuuk”
  • Venetian: “Nuuk”
  • Veps: “Nuuk”
  • Vietnamese: “Godthåb”
  • Vietnamese: “Nûk”
  • Vietnamese: “Nuuk”
  • Vlaams: “Nuuk”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nuuk”
  • Volapük: “Nuuk”
  • Votic: “Nuuk”
  • Walloon: “Nuuk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Godthåb”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nuk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nûk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nuuk”
  • Welsh: “Godthåb”
  • Welsh: “Nuk”
  • Welsh: “Nûk”
  • Welsh: “Nuuk”
  • Western Frisian: “Godthåb”
  • Western Frisian: “Nuk”
  • Western Frisian: “Nûk”
  • Western Frisian: “Nuuk”
  • Western Panjabi: “نُوک”
  • Wolof: “Nuuk”
  • Wu Chinese: “努克”
  • Xhosa: “Nuuk”
  • Yakut: “Нуук”
  • Yoruba: “Godthåb”
  • Yoruba: “Nuk”
  • Yoruba: “Nûk”
  • Yoruba: “Nuuk”
  • Yue Chinese: “努克”
  • Zeeuws: “Nuuk”
  • Zhuang: “Nuuk”
  • Zulu: “i-Nuuk”
  • “Godthåb”
  • “Nûk”
  • “Nuuk”
  • “Nuuks”

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