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Sisimiut

Sisimiut, also known by its Danish name Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America.
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  • Type: City with 5,570 residents
  • Description: town in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Amerdlok”, “Holsteinsborg”, “Holstenborg”, and “Holstensborg”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sisimiut Museum and Taseralik Culture Center.

Museum
Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.
is a museum in Sisimiut, . Located in a historical building near the harbour, specialises in Greenlandic trade, industry and shipping, with artifacts based on ten years of archaeological research and excavations of the ancient Saqqaq culture settlements near the town, offering an insight into the culture of the region of 4,000 years ago.

Theater building
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a in Sisimiut, a town in western , the second-largest town in the country. Located in the eastern part of Sisimiut, on the shore of the small Nalunnguarfik lake, Taseralik is the second such centre in Greenland, after Katuaq in , the capital.

Church
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Sisimiut

Latitude
66.9372° or 66° 56′ 14″ north
Longitude
-53.6665° or 53° 39′ 59″ west
Population
5,570
IATA airport code
JHS
United Nations Location Code
GL JHS
Open location code
98R8W8PM+VC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1913331768
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3419842
Wiki­data ID
Q208098
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sisimiut” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيسيميوت”
  • 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”
  • “Sisimiut”
  • “Sisimiuts”

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