Greenland
Southern Greenland
Kujalleq

Qassiarsuk

Qassiarsuk is a settlement in the municipality, in southern . Its population was 39 in 2020. Qassiarsuk is part of the Kujataa World Heritage Site, due to its historical importance as the homestead of Erik the Red and its unique testimony to Greenlandic farming.
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  • Type: Village with 80 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Kagsiarsuk”, “Kagssiarssuk”, and “Qaksiarsuk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thjodhild’s church.

Church
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Qassiarsuk

Latitude
61.1549° or 61° 9′ 18″ north
Longitude
-45.5168° or 45° 31′ 1″ west
Population
80
IATA airport code
QFT
Open location code
98HP5F3M+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1460042753
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3420741
Wiki­data ID
Q1001352
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qassiarsuk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاسيارسوك”
  • Catalan: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Czech: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Danish: “Qagssiarssuk”
  • Danish: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Dutch: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قاسيارسوك”
  • French: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Georgian: “კასიარსუკი”
  • German: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Icelandic: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Irish: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Italian: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Japanese: “カッシアースック”
  • Kalaallisut: “Qagssiarssuk”
  • Kalaallisut: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Norwegian: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Persian: “قاسیارسوک”
  • Polish: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Portuguese: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Russian: “Кагссиарссук”
  • Russian: “Кассиарсук”
  • Spanish: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Swedish: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Uzbek: “Qassiarsuk”
  • Vietnamese: “Qassiarsuk”

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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 “Qassiarsuk”. Photo: claire rowland, CC BY 2.0.