Qaqortoq
Qaqortoq, also known as Julianehåb, is the capital city of the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located near Cape Thorvaldsen. With a population of 3,069 in 2025, it is the most populous town in Kujalleq and the fourth most in Greenland.Photo: Alankomaat, Public domain.
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- Type: City with 3,170 residents
- Description: town in Greenland
- Also known as: “Julian Haab”, “Julianehaab”, “Julianehåb”, “Kakortak”, and “Kakortok”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qaqortoq Museum and Church of Our Saviour.
Qaqortoq Museum
Museum
Qaqortoq Museum is a museum in Qaqortoq, Greenland. It is located close to the main fountain square in one of the oldest buildings of the town, the former Royal Greenland Trading Department which dates from 1804.
Church of Our Saviour
Church
Photo: Charele, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of Our Savior is a wooden Lutheran church in Qaqortoq, the largest town in southern Greenland. It was established in 1832. The red church is part of the old, colonial harbour district of the town.
Gertrud Rasch’s Church
Church
Photo: Kenny McFly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qaqortoq, also known as Julianehåb, is the capital city of the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located near Cape Thorvaldsen. With a population of 3,069 in 2025, it is the most populous town in Kujalleq and the fourth most in Greenland.
Qaqortoq
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Qaqortoq Municipality, Kujalleq, Southern Greenland, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.7182° or 60° 43′ 6″ northLongitude
-46.0385° or 46° 2′ 19″ westPopulation
3,170IATA airport code
JJUUnited Nations Location Code
GL JJUOpen location code
98GMPX96+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1894193598OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Qaqortoq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاقورتوق”
- Arabic: “كاكورتوك”
- Armenian: “Քակորտոք”
- Armenian: “Քաքորթոք”
- Asturian: “Qaqortoq”
- Basque: “Julianehåb”
- Basque: “Qaqortoq”
- Belarusian: “Какарток”
- Belarusian: “Какортак”
- Catalan: “Qaqortoq”
- Cebuano: “Qaqortoq (kapital sa munisipyo sa Greenland)”
- Cebuano: “Qaqortoq”
- Chinese: “卡科尔托克”
- Cornish: “Qaqortoq”
- Czech: “Qaqortoq”
- Danish: “Julianehåb”
- Danish: “Qaqortoq”
- Dutch: “Qaqortoq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاكورتوك”
- Esperanto: “Qaqortoq”
- Estonian: “Qaqortoq”
- Faroese: “Qaqortoq”
- Finnish: “Qaqortoq”
- French: “Qaqortoq”
- Galician: “Julianehåb”
- Galician: “Qaqortoq”
- Georgian: “კაკორტოკი”
- German: “Julianehåb”
- German: “Qaqortoq”
- Hebrew: “קאקורטוק”
- Hebrew: “קואקורטוק”
- Hungarian: “Qaqortoq”
- Icelandic: “Qaqortoq”
- Indonesian: “Qaqortoq”
- Italian: “Qaqortoq”
- Japanese: “カコトック”
- Kalaallisut: “Julianehåb”
- Kalaallisut: “Qaqortoq”
- Kalaallisut: “Qaqortup kommunea”
- Kazakh: “Какорток”
- Komi: “Какорток”
- Korean: “카콕톡”
- Korean: “콰코르톡”
- Lithuanian: “Kakortokas”
- Macedonian: “Какорток”
- Northern Frisian: “Qaqortoq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qaqortoq”
- Norwegian: “Qaqortoq”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iulianehopa”
- Ossetian: “Какорток”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਕੋਰਟੋਕ”
- Persian: “قاقورتوق”
- Persian: “کاکورتوک”
- Polish: “Qaqortoq”
- Portuguese: “Qaqortoq”
- Russian: “Какорток”
- Samogitian: “Kakortoks”
- Scots: “Qaqortoq”
- Serbian: “Какорток”
- Sinhala: “කකෝර්ටොක්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Slovak: “Qaqortoq”
- Slovenian: “Julianehåb”
- Slovenian: “Qaqortoq”
- Spanish: “Qaqortoq”
- Swedish: “Qaqortoq”
- Turkish: “Qaqortoq”
- Ukrainian: “Какорток”
- Urdu: “قاقورتوق”
- Uzbek: “Qaqortoq”
- Western Panjabi: “کاکورٹوک”
- “Kakortoks”
- “Qaqortoq”
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