Western Greenland
Western Greenland is a region of Greenland. Home to the capital, Nuuk, this is the part of Greenland that you would probably think of if you've only seen the stereotypical picture.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nuuk and Ilulissat.
Nuuk
Nuuk, also known by its Danish name of Godthåb, is the capital and administrative centre of Greenland, with a population of around 15,000. The city is sometimes accused of being rather soulless, with many high-rise blocks.
Ilulissat
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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.
Sisimiut
Sisimiut, also known by its Danish name Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Aasiaat and Uummannaq.
Aasiaat
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Aasiaat is a town in Western Greenland with a population of 3,069 in 2020, making it the fourth largest settlement in Greenland.
Uummannaq
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Uummannaq is a city in Western Greenland. Uummannaq is a town of about 1,300 people with another 1,300 residing in the surrounding settlements. The main industry in the area is fishing for halibut, which has overtaken hunting as the principal industry for the town.
Kangerlussuaq
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Kangerlussuaq is a settlement on the west coast of Greenland near the end of a fjord of the same name. Its Danish name is Søndre Strømfjord, and until the early 1990s was home to a U.S. military base known as Bluie West Eight.
Qasigiannguit
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Qasigiannguit is a fishing town of about 1,200 in Western Greenland. It is located on the shore of Disko Bay.
Oqaatsut
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Oqaatsut is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in western Greenland. It had 29 inhabitants in 2020. The modern name of the settlement is Kalaallisut for "Cormorants". The village is served by the communal all-purpose Pilersuisoq store.
Western Greenland
- Type: Region
- Description: area in Greenland
- Also known as: “Kitaa” and “West Greenland”
- Location: Qeqertalik, Greenland, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Western Greenland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرب غرينلاند”
- Arabic: “كيتا”
- Armenian: “Կիտաա”
- Asturian: “Kitaa”
- Bavarian: “Kitaa”
- Belarusian: “Кіта”
- Catalan: “Kitaa”
- Chinese: “西格陵兰”
- Danish: “Vestgrønland”
- Dutch: “Kitaa”
- Dutch: “Vestgronland”
- Dutch: “Vestgrønland”
- French: “Groenland occidental”
- French: “Groenland-Occidental”
- French: “Kitaa”
- German: “Kitaa”
- German: “Vestgronland”
- German: “Vestgrönland”
- German: “Vestgrønland”
- German: “Westgrönland”
- Italian: “Groenlandia dell’ovest”
- Italian: “Groenlandia occidentale”
- Italian: “Kitaa”
- Italian: “Ovest della Groenlandia”
- Kalaallisut: “Kitaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kitaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Grønland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestgrønland”
- Norwegian: “Vestgrønland”
- Persian: “گرینلند غربی”
- Polish: “Kitaa”
- Portuguese: “Groenlândia Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Kitaa”
- Romanian: “Kitaa”
- Russian: “Западная Гренландия”
- Russian: “Китаа”
- Spanish: “Groenlandia occidental”
- Spanish: “Kitaa”
- Spanish: “Vestgronland”
- Spanish: “Vestgrønland”
- Swedish: “Kitaa”
- Swedish: “Västgrönland”
- Swedish: “Västra Grönland”
- Turkish: “Batı Grönland”
- Turkish: “Kitaa”
- Ukrainian: “Кітаа”
- Venetian: “Kitaa”
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