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{{short description|Capital and largest city of Greenland}}
{{For|the album by Thomas Köner|Nuuk (album){{!}}''Nuuk'' (album)}}
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{{Infobox settlement
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| image_caption = (left to right, top to bottom:) Skyline at night; Church; Downtown Nuuk, with [[Katuaq]] in the foreground; [[Sermitsiaq (mountain)|Sermitsiaq]] mountain overlooking Nuussuaq; [[Nuussuaq (district)|Nuussuaq]] district; [[Qernertunnguit]], neighbourhood in the [[Quassussuup Tungaa]] district; the skyline at night with the [[aurora borealis]] above
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| subdivision_type2 = [[Administrative divisions of Greenland|Municipality]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Sermersooq]]
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| established_title = Founded
| established_date = 29 August 1728
| established_title2 = Incorporated
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| population_total = 19,604872 ([[List of cities and towns in Greenland|Largest in Greenland]])
| population_note = {{clarify span|text=City and metropolitan population is co-extensive, the entire Metro area belongs to Nuuk City|date=August 2022}}
| population_demonym = Nuummioq
| timezone1 = [[Western Greenland Time]]
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'''Nuuk''' ({{IPA-kl|nuːk|pronunciation|Nuuk.ogg}}; {{lang-da|Nuuk}},<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dsn.dk/ordbog/ro/nuuk/|title=DSN}}</ref> formerly {{lang|da|Godthåb}} {{IPA-|da|ˈkʌtˌhɔˀp|}})<ref>The [[Danish orthography|pre-1948 spelling]] was ''Godthaab''.</ref> is the [[capital (political)|capital]] of and [[List of cities and towns in Greenland|most populous city]] in [[Greenland]], an autonomous territory in the [[Kingdom of Denmark]]. Nuuk is the seat of [[Government of Greenland|government]] and the territory's largest cultural and economic center. The major cities from other countries closest to the capital are [[Iqaluit]] and [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]] in [[Canada]] and [[Reykjavík]] in [[Iceland]]. Nuuk contains a third of Greenland's population and its tallest building. Nuuk is also the seat of government for the [[Sermersooq]] [[municipalities of Greenland|municipality]]. In January 20232024, it had a population of 19,604872.<ref name="bank.stat.gl">{{Cite web |title=Population January 1st by place of birth, gender, age, residence type and time |url=https://bank.stat.gl:443/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXSTA.px/table/tableViewLayout1/ |access-date=20232024-0306-2309 |website=StatBank |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Nuuk is considered a modernized city after the policy began in 1950.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dzik|first=Tony|title=Nuuk, Greenland: Site, Situation, and "The Law of the Primate City"|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328375731|date=October 1, 2018}}</ref>
 
The city was founded in 1728 by the Dano-Norwegian missionary [[Hans Egede]] when he relocated from the earlier Hope Colony ({{lang|da|Haabets Koloni}}) where he arrived in 1721. The governor [[Claus Paarss]] was part of the relocation. The new colony was placed at the Inuit settlement of Nûk and was named ''Godthaab'' ("Good Hope"). "Nuuk" is the [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]] word for "[[headland|cape]]" ({{lang-da|næs}}) and is commonly found in Greenlandic place names. It is so named because of its position at the end of the [[Nuup Kangerlua]] [[fjord]] on the eastern shore of the [[Labrador Sea]]. Its [[latitude]], at 64°11' N, makes it the world's [[List of northernmost items|northernmost]] [[List of national capitals by latitude|capital]], only a few kilometres farther north than the Icelandic capital [[Reykjavík]]. When [[home rule]] was established in 1979, the authorization of place names was transferred to Greenlandic authorities, who subsequently preferred Greenlandic names over Danish ones. The name ''Godthåb'' mostly went out of use over the next two decades.
 
The campus of the [[University of Greenland]], hosting [[Statistics Greenland]] and the main holdings of the [[Public and National Library of Greenland]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilimmarfik.gl/ |publisher=University of Greenland, Ilimmarfik |title=Velkommen til Ilimmarfik |access-date=11 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711000826/http://www.ilimmarfik.gl/ |archive-date=11 July 2010}}</ref> are at the northern end of the district, near the road to [[Nuuk Airport]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/OmIlisimatusarfik/Kontakt/tabid/61/language/da-DK/Default.aspx |publisher=University of Greenland |title=Kontakt |access-date=11 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712072746/http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/OmIlisimatusarfik/Kontakt/tabid/61/language/da-DK/Default.aspx |archive-date=12 July 2010}}</ref>
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== History ==
 
The site has a long history of habitation. The area around Nuuk was first occupied by the ancient, pre-Inuit, [[Paleo-Eskimo]] people of the [[Saqqaq culture]] as far back as 2200 BC when they lived in the area around the now abandoned settlement of [[Qoornoq]].<ref name="NT">{{cite web |url=http://www.nuuk-tourism.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=247 |title=Human history |publisher=Nuuk Tourism |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615005035/http://www.nuuk-tourism.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=247 |archive-date=15 June 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> For a long time, it was occupied by the [[Dorset culture]] around the former settlement of [[Kangeq]], but they disappeared from the Nuuk district before AD 1000. The Nuuk area was later inhabited by [[VikingsNorsemen|VikingNorse]] explorerssettlers infrom around 1000 AD until the 10thdisappearance centuryof the settlement ([[WesternHistory Settlementof Greenland#Norse settlement|for uncertain reasons]]), andduring shortlythe thereafter15th bycentury. ([[InuitWestern Settlement]] peoples).<ref name="EB">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/422941/Nuuk |title=Nuuk |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] | access-date=12 July 2010}}</ref> Inuit and Norsemen both lived with little interaction in this area from about 1000 until the disappearance of the [[Norsemen|Norse]] settlement [[History of Greenland#Norse settlement|for uncertain reasons]] during the 15th century.
 
[[File:Egede nuuk.JPG|thumb|left|The statue of [[Hans Egede]] in Nuuk]]
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The city proper was founded as the fort of '''Godt-Haab''' in 1728 by the [[list of governors of Greenland|royal governor]] [[Claus Paarss]], when he relocated the missionary and merchant [[Hans Egede]]'s earlier Hope Colony ({{lang|da|Haabets Koloni}}) from [[Kangeq Island]] to the mainland. At that time, Greenland was formally still a [[List of possessions of Norway#Former dependencies and homelands|Norwegian colony]] ([[Treaty of Kiel|until 1814]]) under the united [[list of monarchs of Norway|Dano-Norwegian Crown]], but the colony had not had any contact for over three centuries. Paarss's colonists consisted of mutinous soldiers, convicts, and prostitutes and most died within the first year of scurvy and other ailments. In 1733 and 1734, a [[smallpox]] epidemic killed most of the native population as well as Egede's wife.<ref name="Wurm">{{cite book |last1=Wurm |first1=Stephen A. |last2=Mühlhäusler |first2=Peter |last3=Tyron |first3=Darrell T. |title=Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glU0vte5gSkC&q=1733+smallpox+nuuk&pg=PA1051 |series=Volume 2, Part 1 Volume 13 of Trends in Linguistics |year=1996 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-013417-9 |page=1051}}</ref> Hans Egede went back to Denmark in 1736 after 15 years in Greenland, leaving his son [[Paul Egede|Poul]] to continue his work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.world66.com/northamerica/greenland/nuuk |title=Nuuk travel guide |access-date=24 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412061523/http://www.world66.com/northamerica/greenland/nuuk |archive-date=12 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Godthaab became the seat of government for the Danish colony of [[South Greenland]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Scandinavian Review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_s5AQAAIAAJ |year=1921 |publisher=American-Scandinavian Foundation. |page=681}}</ref> while [[Godhavn]] (modern Qeqertarsuaq) was the capital of [[North Greenland]] until 1940, when the administration was unified in Godthaab.<ref name="Lemkin2008">{{cite book |last=Lemkin |first=Raphael |title=Axis Rule in Occupied Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0in2wOY-W0C&pg=PA167 |date=1 June 2008 |publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-58477-901-8 |page=167}}</ref>
 
In 1733, [[Moravian mission in Greenland|Moravian missionaries]] received permission to begin a mission on the island; in 1747, there were enough converts to prompt the construction of the [[Moravian Brethren Mission House]] and the formal establishment of the mission as '''New Herrnhut''' ({{lang-da|Nye-Hernhut}}). This became the nucleus for present-day Nuuk as many Greenlanders from the southeastern coast left their territory to live at the mission station. From this base, further missions were established at [[Lichtenfels, Greenland|Lichtenfels]] (1748), [[Lichtenau, Greenland|Lichtenau]] (1774), [[Friedrichsthal, Greenland|Friedrichsthal]] (1824), [[Umanak (mission)|Umanak]] (1861), and [[Idlorpait]] (1864),<ref>[[Cornelia Lüdecke|Lüdecke, Cornelia]]. "[http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/09luedecke.pdf East Meets West: Meteorological observations of the Moravians in Greenland and Labrador since the 18th century] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181730/http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/09luedecke.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }}". ''History of Meteorology'' 2 (2005). Retrieved 27 April 2012.</ref> before they were discontinued in 1900 and folded into the Lutheran [[Church of Denmark]].<ref>Wittman, P. "[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06777b.htm Greenland]". ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1909. Retrieved 28 April 2012.</ref>
 
[[File:Legende børn, ca. 1878 (8473597948).jpg|thumb|left|Nuuk ({{lang-da|Godthåb}}), {{circa}} 1878]]
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Around 1850, Greenland, and especially the area around Nuuk, were in crisis. The Europeans had brought diseases and a culture that conflicted with the ways of the native Greenlanders. Many Greenlanders were living in poverty. In 1853, [[Hinrich Johannes Rink]] came to Greenland and was surprised at how local Greenlandic culture and identity had been suppressed under Danish influence. In response, in 1861, he started the ''[[Atuagagdliutt]]'', Greenland's first newspaper, with a native Greenlander as editor. This newspaper based in Nuuk later became an important token of Greenlandic identity.
 
During [[World War II]], there was a reawakening of Greenlandic national identity. The use of written Greenlandic grew, a council was assembled under [[Eske Brun]]'s leadership in Nuuk. In 1940, an American and a Canadian Consulate were established in Nuuk.
 
Under new regulations in 1950, two councils amalgamated into one. This Countryside Council was abolished on 1 May 1979, when the city of Godthåb was renamed Nuuk by the Greenland Home Rule government. The city boomed during the 1950s when [[Denmark]] began to modernize Greenland. As in Greenland as a whole, Nuuk is populated today by both Inuit and [[Danish people|Danes]]. Over a third of Greenland's total population lives in the Nuuk Greater Metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/greenland/ |title=CIA World Factbook – Greenland|date=2 March 2022}}</ref>
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[[File:Nuuk Greenland OpenStreetMap 2024-09-09.png|thumb|right|Map of Nuuk]]
Nuuk is located at approximately {{Coord|64|10|N|51|44|W}}<ref name="kommune_information">[http://www.kanukoka.gl/data/10801/Kommuneoplysninger.pdf Municipality information.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616062531/http://www.kanukoka.gl/data/10801/Kommuneoplysninger.pdf |date=16 June 2007 }} ''De grønlandske kommuners Landsforening'', KANUKOKA</ref> at the mouth of Nuup Kangerlua (formerly Baal's River<ref>Nicoll, James. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=rGUDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA242 An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands]''. Oliver & Boyd, 1840.</ref>), some {{cvt|10|km|mi}} from the shores of the [[Labrador Sea]] on the southwestern coast of Greenland, and about {{cvt|240|km|mi}} south of the [[Arctic Circle]]. Initially, the fjord flows to the northwest, to then turn southwest at {{coord|64|43|N|50|37|W}}, splitting into three arms in its lower run, with three big islands in between the arms: [[Sermitsiaq Island]], [[Qeqertarsuaq Island (Nuuk)|Qeqertarsuaq Island]], and [[Qoornuup Qeqertarsua]].<ref name="lp">{{cite book |last=O'Carroll |first=Etain |title=Greenland and the Arctic |publisher=Lonely Planet |pages=154 |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-74059-095-2}}</ref> The fjord widens into a bay dotted with [[Skerry|skerries]] near its mouth, opening into Labrador Sea at approximately {{coord|64|03|N|51|58|W}}. Some {{cvt|20|km}} to the northeast, reaching a height of {{cvt|1210|m}}, [[Sermitsiaq (mountain)|Sermitsiaq]] can be seen from almost everywhere in Nuuk. The mountain has given its name to the nationwide newspaper ''[[Sermitsiaq (newspaper)|Sermitsiaq]]''. Closer to the town are the peaks of [[Store Malene]], {{cvt|790|m}}, and [[Lille Malene]], {{cvt|420|m}}.<ref name="dsd" /> The [[magnetic declination]] at Nuuk is extreme.<ref name="magnetic_variation">On 11 October 2015, the [[magnetic declination]] between the [[North Pole]] and Nuuk was "27° 49' W ± 0° 33' changing by 0° 22' E per year", calculated with [[NOAA]]'s [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag-web/ Magnetic Field Calculators], [[National Geophysical Data Center]].</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.magnetic-declination.com/Greenland/Nuuk/938297.html |title=Magnetic declination in Nuuk, Greenland |publisher=Magnetic Declination |access-date=22 December 2015}}</ref>
 
{{wide image|StoreMaleneView.jpg|1000px850px|alt=View from the mountain Ukkusissaq|View from the mountain Ukkusissaq, which means "soap stone" (in Danish it is called Store Malene)}}
{{wide image|Nuuk Panorama image.jpg|1000px850px|alt=Panorama of Nuuk|Panorama of Nuuk}}
 
===Climate===
[[File:Nuuk-30år-Vejrdata1991-2020.png|thumb|right|Climate chart of Nuuk]]
Nuuk has a maritime-influenced [[tundra climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''[[tundra climate|ET'']]) with coldlong, longcold, snowy winters and coolshort, shortcool summers. Although the winters in Nuuk are relatively cold, they are milder compared to other tundra climates, such as in [[Alaska]] in the [[United States]] or parts of [[Eastern Siberia]]. Instead, peak winter is similar to identical latitudes in the [[Nordic countries]]. On 21 December, the shortest day and longest night of the year, the sun rises at 1011:3022 am and sets at 23:2028 pm. By contrast, on the longest day and shortest night of the year, 21 June, the sun rises at 23:5453 am and does not set until 121:0403 am, givingproducing aconstant quasi-[[Midnightcivil Suntwilight]]. Nuuk can have mild temperatures on brief occasions year-round, with each month having recorded {{convert|13|C|F}} or warmer, although only June, July, August, and September have recorded what could be considered hot weather (defined as {{convert|22.5|C|F}} or higher). The monthly averages range from {{convert|-9|C|F}} to {{convert|7|C|F}}, whereas all-time extremes range from {{convert|-32.5|C|F}} on 14 January 1984 to {{convert|26.3|C|F}} on 6 July 2008. The record wind in Nuuk is 68&nbsp;km/h.
 
The average monthly temperature ({{convert|7.34|°C|1}} in AugustJuly) is colder than what is considered the [[Tree line|limit for trees]] ({{convert|10|°C|0}} during the warmest month). There are a few planted trees<ref>e.g [https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/8059956 Gult] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217053815/https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/8059956 |date=17 December 2013 }} by Henrik Greve Thorsen</ref> which do not sustain well.
 
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== Demographics ==
With 19,604872 inhabitants as of January 20232024,<ref>{{Cite web |titlename=Population January 1st by place of birth, gender, age, residence type and time |url=https://"bank.stat.gl:443"/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXSTA.px/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=StatBank |language=en}}</ref> Nuuk is by far the largest town in Greenland. The population of Nuuk has doubled since 1977, increased by over a third since 1990, and risen by almost 21% since 2000. In addition to those born in Greenland, data from 2015 showed 3,826 were born outside the country.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Greenland in Figures 2021|url=https://stat.gl/publ/en/GF/2021/pdf/Greenland%20in%20Figures%202021.pdf|access-date=29 May 2021}}</ref> Attracted by good employment opportunities with high wages, Danes have continued to settle in the town. Today, Nuuk has the highest proportion of Danes of any town in Greenland.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Greenland in Figures 2021|url=https://stat.gl/publ/en/GF/2021/pdf/Greenland%20in%20Figures%202021.pdf|access-date=29 May 2021}}</ref> Half of Greenland's immigrants live in Nuuk, which also accounts for a quarter of the country's native population.<ref name="dsd">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Geografi_og_historie/Gr%C3%B8nland/Gr%C3%B8nlandske_kommuner/Nuuk_Kommune |title=Nuuk Kommune |encyclopedia=Den Store Danske |access-date=21 December 2015 |language=da}}</ref>
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== Government ==
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=== Healthcare ===
[[File:Queen Ingrid's Health Center Entrance 2023.jpg|thumb|Queen Ingrid's Health Center]]
The city is served by [[Queen Ingrid's Hospital#Queen_IngridQueen Ingrid's_Health_Centers Health Center|Queen Ingrid's Health Center]]. The health center serves as the regional health center for Region Sermersooq. It has an emergency room, and a central clinic with several [[general practitioner]]s. Nuuk also has [[Queen Ingrid's Hospital]] which is the central hospital of Greenland.
 
=== Tourism ===
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== Cityscape ==
[[File:Tuapannguit buildings, Nuuk, Greenland (Quintin Soloviev).png|thumb|Tuapannguit low-rise residential buildings in Nuuk]]
 
=== Historical buildings ===
;Hans Egede's House
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The [[Public and National Library of Greenland|National Library of Greenland]] in Nuuk is the largest reference library in the country, devoted to the preservation of Greenland's cultural heritage and history.<ref name="ica">{{cite web |url=http://www.groenlandica.gl/eng/om_os/index_om_os.html?Mode_ID=0 |publisher=Groenlandica, Greenlandic National Library |title=About Us |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721031237/http://www.groenlandica.gl/eng/om_os/index_om_os.html?Mode_ID=0 |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> The library holdings are split between the public library in the town center and Ilimmarfik, the campus of the University of Greenland. As of 1 January 2008, there are 83,324 items in the library database at Ilimmarfik.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.groenlandica.gl/eng/materialer/index_materialer.html?Mode_ID=0 |publisher=Groenlandica, Greenlandic National Library |title=Collections |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721031710/http://www.groenlandica.gl/eng/materialer/index_materialer.html?Mode_ID=0 |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref>
 
== Sports ==▼
{{Main|Nuuk Stadium}}▼
[[File:Godthabhallen.jpg|thumb|[[Godthåbhallen]] exterior]]
[[File:Nuuk Teletaarnet.jpg|thumb|Teletårnet, Nuuk]]
▲== Sports ==
▲{{Main|Nuuk Stadium}}
Nuuk's sports clubs include [[Nuuk Idraetslag|Nuuk IL]] (established in 1934), [[B-67]], and [[Grønlands Seminarius Sportklub|GSS Nuuk]]. Nuuk Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, used mostly for [[Association football|football]] games. The stadium has a capacity of 2,000.<ref name="worldstadiums.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/greenland.shtml |title=World Stadiums – Stadiums in Greenland |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605135020/http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/greenland.shtml |archive-date=5 June 2011}}</ref> The stadium can also be used as an entertainment venue: the Scottish rock band [[Nazareth (band)|Nazareth]] performed at the venue. Nuuk also has the [[Godthåbhallen]], a handball stadium. It is the home of the [[Greenland men's national handball team]] and has a capacity of 1,000.<ref name="worldstadiums.com" /> There is a hill for alpine skiing with an altitude difference around 300 meters on the mountain Lille Malene,<ref name="skilift.gl">{{cite web |url=http://www.skilift.gl/ |title=Skiliften Sisorarfiit |access-date=6 May 2013}}</ref> with the valley station close to the airport terminal.<ref name="xpda">{{cite web |url=http://xpda.com/flyingtoeurope/ |title=General Aviation Flying to Europe |date=10 May 2010 |access-date=6 May 2013 |author=Webster, Bob}}</ref> There is also the Nuuk golf course, the only arctic golf course in the world.<ref>[http://greenlandtoday.com/golf-in-greenland/?lang=en Nuuk Golf Course] Greenlandtoday.</ref>
 
== Notable people ==
[[File:Múte Bourup Egede May 2021.jpg|140px|thumb|right|[[Múte Bourup Egede]], 2021]]
* [[Maliina Abelsen]], Greenland's Minister for Social Affairs▼
* [[Johan Carl Christian Petersen]] (1813–1880), a seaman and interpreter
* [[Hans Lynge]] (1906-1988), writer, dramatist, painter, politician, printmaker and sculptor.
* [[Finn Lynge]] (1933–2014), politician, Indigenous rights activist and priest; the sole [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] for Greenland, 1979 until 1984
* [[Agnethe Davidsen]] (1947–2007), Greenland's first female government minister▼
* [[Rasmus Lyberth]] (born 1951), musician and actor.
* [[Sofie Petersen]] (born 1955), a Lutheran bishop & Bishop of Greenland from 1995 to 2020.
* [[:da:Minik Rosing|Minik Thorleif Rosing, (DK wiki)]] (born 1957), geologist.▼
* [[Bo Lidegaard]] (born 1958), historian and journalist▼
* brothers [[Otto Rosing]] (born 1967), film director & [[Lars Rosing]] (born 1972), actor.
▲* [[Maliina Abelsen]] (born 1976), Greenland's Minister for Social Affairs
* [[Aaja Chemnitz Larsen]] (born 1977), politician, member of the Danish [[Folketing]]
* [[Sara Olsvig]] (born 1978), politician member of the Danish [[Folketing]], 2011–2014.
* [[Nive Nielsen]] (born 1979), singer-songwriter and actress
* [[Julie Berthelsen]] (born 1979), pop singer and songwriter.
* [[Bibi Chemnitz]] (born 1983), fashion designer
* [[Múte Bourup Egede]] (born 1987), politician, seventh [[Prime Minister of Greenland]]
▲* [[Agnethe Davidsen]], Greenland's first female government minister
 
* [[Jesper Grønkjær]], [[Association football|footballer]]▼
=== Sport ===
▲* [[Bo Lidegaard]], historian
* [[Nils Nielsen]] (born 1971), Footballfootball manager., Headhead coach for the [[Switzerland national women's national football team.]], 2018-2022
▲* [[Jesper Grønkjær]] (born 1977), [[Association football|footballer]], played 400 games and 80 for [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]]
▲* [[:da:Minik Rosing|Minik Thorleif Rosing]], geologist.
* [[Mads Andersen (chess player)|Mads Andersen]] (born 1995), a Danish chess grandmaster.
 
== International relations ==
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== External links ==
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*{{URL|https://visitgreenland.com/destinations/nuuk/|Nuuk – Greenland's largest city and capital}}. Visitgreenland.com.
 
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