Qaanaaq
Qaanaaq, formerly known as Thule, in northern Greenland is one of the world's northernmost civilian settlements, topped only by Longyearbyen on Svalbard and a few military bases.
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- Type: Town with 652 residents
- Description: place in Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark
- Also known as: “Avanersuaq”, “Kanâk”, “Kanâq”, “Karna”, “New Thule”, “Qaanaaq kommun”, “Qaanaq”, “Qânâq”, “Quaanaaq”, “Thulé”, “Verdens nordligste by”, “קאנק”, “图勒”, and “新图勒”
- Historically known as: “Thule”
Qaanaaq
- Categories: human settlement, city, and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Northern Greenland, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
77.4654° or 77° 27′ 55″ north
Longitude
-69.2278° or 69° 13′ 40″ west
Population
652
IATA airport code
NAQ
UN/LOCODE
GL NAQ
Open location code
C79GFQ8C+4V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Qaanaaq” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Qaanaaq”
- Arabic: “كاناك”
- Asturian: “Qaanaaq”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaanaak”
- Basque: “Qaanaaq”
- Belarusian: “Каанаак”
- Bulgarian: “Каанаак”
- Catalan: “Qaanaaq”
- Cebuano: “Qaanaaq”
- Central Kurdish: “کاناک”
- Chinese: “卡納克”
- Chinese: “卡纳克”
- Croatian: “Qaanaaq”
- Czech: “Qaanaaq”
- Danish: “Qaanaaq”
- Danish: “Thule”
- Dutch: “Qaanaaq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاناك”
- Esperanto: “Qaanaaq”
- Estonian: “Qaanaaq”
- Finnish: “Qaanaaq”
- French: “Qaanaaq”
- Georgian: “კაანააკი”
- German: “Qaanaaq”
- German: “Thule”
- Greek: “Κάαναακ”
- Hebrew: “קאנאק”
- Icelandic: “Qaanaaq”
- Indonesian: “Qaanaaq”
- Inuktitut: “ᖄᓈᖅ”
- Irish: “Qaanaaq”
- Italian: “Qaanaaq”
- Japanese: “カーナーク”
- Kalaallisut: “Qaanaaq”
- Komi: “Каанаак”
- Korean: “카나크”
- Korean: “카낙”
- Lithuanian: “Kanakas”
- Macedonian: “Канак”
- Northern Frisian: “Qaanaaq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qaanaaq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qaanaaq”
- Norwegian: “Qaanaaq”
- Persian: “قاآناق”
- Persian: “قاناق”
- Polish: “Qaanaaq”
- Portuguese: “Qaanaaq”
- Romanian: “Qaanaaq”
- Russian: “Каанаак”
- Sardinian: “Qaanaaq”
- Scots: “Qaanaaq”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Qaanaaq”
- Sinhala: “කානාක්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Slovak: “Qaanaaq”
- Spanish: “Qaanaaq”
- Swedish: “Qaanaaq”
- Turkish: “Qaanaaq”
- Ukrainian: “Каанаак”
- Urdu: “قاناٹ”
- Uzbek: “Qaanaaq”
- Welsh: “Qaanaaq”
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