Ilulissat
Ilulissat is the third largest city in Greenland, in the Disko Bay just by the icefjord, from which it got its name. Ilulissat has one of the most beautiful settings for a great Greenlandic experience.
- Town with 5,150 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 11 metres (36 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code JAV
- Description: town in Greenland
- Also known as“Ilulisat”“Jacobshavn”“Jakobshavn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Knud Rasmussen’s Museum and Hotel Arctic.
Knud Rasmussen’s Museum
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Latitude
69.2197° or 69° 13′ 11″ north
Longitude
-51.0986° or 51° 5′ 55″ west
UN/LOCODE
GL JAV
Open location code
98XC6W92+VG
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Ilulissat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيلوليسات”
- Armenian: “Իլուլիսատ”
- Asturian: “Ilulissat”
- Azerbaijani: “İlulissat”
- Basque: “Ilulissat”
- Basque: “Jakobshavn”
- Belarusian: “Ілулісат”
- Belarusian: “Ілюлісат”
- Belarusian: “Якабсхаўн”
- Bulgarian: “Сермермиут”
- Catalan: “Ilulissat”
- Catalan: “Jakobshavn”
- Cebuano: “Sermermiut”
- Chinese: “伊卢利萨特”
- Chinese: “伊盧利薩特”
- Cornish: “Ilulissat”
- Czech: “Iluligssat”
- Czech: “Ilulisat”
- Czech: “Ilulissat”
- Czech: “Jakobshavn”
- Danish: “Illulissat”
- Danish: “Ilulissat”
- Danish: “Jacobshavn”
- Danish: “Jakobshavn”
- Dutch: “Ilulissat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايلوليسات”
- Esperanto: “Ilulissat”
- Estonian: “Ilulissat”
- Estonian: “Jakobshavn”
- Faroese: “Ilulissat”
- Faroese: “Jacobshavn”
- Finnish: “Ilulissat”
- Finnish: “Jakobshavn”
- French: “Ilulissat”
- French: “Jakobshavn”
- Galician: “Ilulissat”
- Galician: “Jakobshavn”
- Georgian: “იაკობსჰავნი”
- Georgian: “ილულისატი”
- German: “Ilulissat”
- German: “Jakobshavn”
- German: “Sermermiut”
- Greek: “Ilulissat”
- Greek: “Ιλουλισάτ”
- Greek: “Ιλούλισσατ”
- Greek: “Παγετώνας και Φιόρδ Ιλούλισσατ”
- Hebrew: “אילוליסאט”
- Hungarian: “Ilulissat”
- Icelandic: “Ilulissat”
- Indonesian: “Ilulissat”
- Irish: “Ilulissat”
- Italian: “Ilulissat”
- Italian: “Jakobshavn”
- Japanese: “イルリサット・アイスフィヨルド”
- Japanese: “イルリサット”
- Javanese: “Ilulissat”
- Kalaallisut: “Ilulissat”
- Komi: “Илулиссат”
- Korean: “일루리사트”
- Latvian: “Ilulisata”
- Lithuanian: “Ilulisatas”
- Lithuanian: “Iulisatas”
- Lithuanian: “Jakobshaunas”
- Macedonian: “Илулисат”
- Malay: “Ilulissat”
- Maltese: “Ilulissat”
- Mingrelian: “ილულისატი”
- Northern Frisian: “Ilulissat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ilulissat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jakobshavn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ilulissat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jakobshavn”
- Norwegian: “Ilulissat”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iacobeshæfn”
- Ossetian: “Илулиссат”
- Persian: “ایلولیسات”
- Piemontese: “Ilulissat”
- Polish: “Ilulissat”
- Polish: “Jakobshavn”
- Portuguese: “Ilulissat”
- Portuguese: “Jakobshavn”
- Romanian: “Ilulissat”
- Russian: “Иллулисат”
- Russian: “Илулиссат”
- Russian: “Якобсхавн”
- Samogitian: “Ilulisats”
- Scots: “Ilulissat”
- Serbian: “Ilulisat”
- Serbian: “Ilulissat”
- Serbian: “Илулисат”
- Sinhala: “ඉලුලිසැට්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Slovak: “Ilulissat”
- Slovenian: “Ilulissat”
- Slovenian: “Jakobshavn”
- Slovenian: “Sermermiut”
- Spanish: “Ilulissat”
- Spanish: “Jakobshavn”
- Swedish: “Ilulissat”
- Swedish: “Jakobshavn”
- Swedish: “Sermermiut”
- Turkish: “Ilulissat”
- Ukrainian: “Ілуліссат”
- Ukrainian: “Якобсгавн”
- Urdu: “الولیسات”
- Uzbek: “Ilulissat”
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