Sisimiut
Sisimiut, also known by its Danish name Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, and the second-largest city in Greenland.
- Town with about 5,580 residents
- …has the IATA airport code JHS
- …was formerly known as “Holsteinborg”
- Description: town in Greenland
- Also known as“Amerdlok”“Holsteinsborg”“Holstenborg”“Holstensborg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sisimiut Museum and Taseralik Culture Center.
Sisimiut
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Latitude
66.9372° or 66° 56′ 14″ north
Longitude
-53.6665° or 53° 39′ 59″ west
UN/LOCODE
GL JHS
Open location code
98R8W8PM+VC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sisimiut” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيسيميوت”
- Armenian: “Սիսիմիուտ”
- Asturian: “Sisimiut”
- Azerbaijani: “Sisimiut”
- Belarusian: “Сісіміўт”
- Belarusian: “Сысыміют”
- Catalan: “Holsteinsborg”
- Catalan: “Sisimiut”
- Cebuano: “Sisimiut”
- Chinese: “荷尔斯泰因斯堡”
- Chinese: “西西缪特”
- Chinese: “錫西米尤特”
- Chinese: “锡西米尤特”
- Cornish: “Sisimiut”
- Czech: “Holsteinsborg”
- Czech: “Sisimiut”
- Danish: “Holsteinsborg”
- Danish: “Holstensborg”
- Danish: “Sisimiut”
- Dutch: “Holsteinsborg”
- Dutch: “Sisimiut”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيسيميوت”
- Esperanto: “Sisimiut”
- Estonian: “Holsteinsborg”
- Estonian: “Sisimiut”
- Faroese: “Sisimiut”
- Finnish: “Sisimiut”
- French: “Holsteinsborg”
- French: “Sisimiut”
- Galician: “Holsteinsborg”
- Galician: “Sisimiut”
- Georgian: “სისიმიუტი”
- German: “Holsteinborg”
- German: “Sisimiut”
- Greek: “Σισιμιούτ”
- Hebrew: “סיסימיוט”
- Hungarian: “Sisimiut”
- Icelandic: “Sisimiut”
- Indonesian: “Sisimiut”
- Italian: “Sisimiut”
- Japanese: “シシミウト”
- Japanese: “シシミュート”
- Kalaallisut: “Holsteinsborg”
- Kalaallisut: “Sisimiut”
- Kazakh: “Сисимиут”
- Komi: “Сисимиут”
- Korean: “시시미우트”
- Korean: “시시미웃”
- Latin: “Burgus Holsatiensis”
- Latin: “Sisimiut”
- Latvian: “Sisimiuta”
- Lithuanian: “Sisimiutas”
- Macedonian: “Сисимиут”
- Northern Frisian: “Sisimiut”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Holsteinsborg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sisimiut”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Holsteinsborg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sisimiut”
- Norwegian: “Sisimiut”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Holstānburg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sisimiut”
- Ossetian: “Сисимиут”
- Persian: “سیسیمیوت”
- Polish: “Holsteinsborg”
- Polish: “Sisimiut”
- Portuguese: “Holsteinsborg”
- Portuguese: “Sisimiut”
- Russian: “Сисимиут”
- Samogitian: “Sisimiuts”
- Scots: “Sisimiut”
- Serbian: “Sisimijut”
- Serbian: “Sisimiut”
- Serbian: “Сисимијут”
- Serbian: “Сисимјут”
- Sinhala: “සිසිමියුට්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Slovak: “Sisimiut”
- Slovenian: “Holsteinborg”
- Slovenian: “Sisimiut”
- Spanish: “Sisimiut”
- Swedish: “Holsteinsborg”
- Swedish: “Sisimiut kommun”
- Swedish: “Sisimiut kommunea”
- Swedish: “Sisimiut”
- Turkish: “Sisimiut”
- Ukrainian: “Сісіміут”
- Urdu: “سیسیمیوت”
- Uzbek: “Sisimiut”
- Yue Chinese: “西西繆特”
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