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. Bygd in Nuuk Fjord…Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Nuuk Airport
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nuuk Airport is an airport serving Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Public and National Library of Greenland
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Public and National Library of Greenland is the public and national library of Greenland, located in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Katuaq Culture Centre
Photo: Alankomaat, Public domain.
Katuaq is a cultural centre in Nuuk, Greenland. It is used for concerts, exhibitions, conferences, and as a cinema.
Localities in the Area
Nuuk Centrum
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nuuk Centrum is a district of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Nuussuaq
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nuussuaq is a district of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, It is located in the northern part of the city, west and southwest of Nuuk Airport, approximately 4 km outside the city center.
Old Nuuk
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Old Nuuk may refer to several neighborhoods of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Nuuk
- Type: City with 18,300 residents
- Description: capital of Greenland
- Category: locality
- Location: Sermersooq, Western Greenland, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.1836° or 64° 11' 1" northLongitude
-51.7215° or 51° 43' 17" westPopulation
18,300Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
GOHUnited Nations Location Code
GL GOHOpen Location Code
98PC57MH+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 992046822OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3421319Wikidata ID
Q226Nuuk Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Nuuk
- Afrikaans: Godthåb
- Afrikaans: Nuk
- Afrikaans: Nuuk
- Afrikaans: Nûk
- Akan: Nuuk
- Albanian: Godthåb
- Albanian: Nuk
- Albanian: Nuuk
- Albanian: Nûk
- Amharic: ኑክ
- Arabic: Nuuk
- Arabic: نوك
- Aragonese: Nuuk
- Armenian: Nûk
- Armenian: Նուուկ
- Arpitan: Nuuk
- Asturian: Godthåb
- Asturian: Nuk
- Asturian: Nuuk
- Asturian: Nûk
- Aymara: Nuuk
- Azerbaijani: Godthåb
- Azerbaijani: Nuk
- Azerbaijani: Nuuk
- Azerbaijani: Nûk
- Bambara: Nuuk
- Banjar: Nuuk
- Basque: Godthåb
- Basque: Nuk
- Basque: Nuuk
- Bavarian: Godthåb
- Bavarian: Nuk
- Bavarian: Nuuk
- Bavarian: Nûk
- Belarusian: Гатхоб
- Belarusian: Нук
- Belarusian: Нуук
- Bengali: নুক
- Bislama: Nuuk
- Bosnian: Nuuk
- Brahui: Nuuk
- Breton: Godthåb
- Breton: Nuuk
- Breton: Nûk
- Bulgarian: Нуук
- Catalan: Godthåb
- Catalan: Nuk
- Catalan: Nuuk
- Catalan: Nûk
- Cebuano: Godthåb
- Cebuano: Nuk
- Cebuano: Nuuk (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Nuuk
- Cebuano: Nûk
- Central Bikol: Nuuk
- Central Kurdish: نووک
- Chamorro: Nuuk
- Chavacano: Nuk
- Chavacano: Nuuk
- Chavacano: Nûk
- Chechen: Нуук
- Cherokee: Nuuk
- Cheyenne: Nuuk
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: Nuuk
- Chinese: Nuuk
- Chinese: 努克
- Chinese: 哥特哈布
- Chinese: 戈特霍布
- Choctaw: Nuuk
- Church Slavic: Ноукъ
- Chuvash: Нуук
- Corsican: Nuk
- Corsican: Nuuk
- Corsican: Nûk
- Cree: Nuuk
- Creek: Nuuk
- Crimean Tatar: Nuuk
- Croatian: Nuk
- Croatian: Nuuk
- Croatian: Nûk
- Czech: Godthaab
- Czech: Godthåb
- Czech: Nuk
- Czech: Nuuk
- Czech: Nûk
- Danish: Godthåb
- Danish: Nuuk
- Danish: Nûk
- Dimli (individual language): Nuk
- Dimli (individual language): Nuuk
- Dimli (individual language): Nûk
- Dutch: Godthåb
- Dutch: Nuk
- Dutch: Nuuk
- Dutch: Nûk
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: Nuuk
- Eastern Mari: Нуук
- Egyptian Arabic: نوك
- English: Godthåb
- English: Nuk
- English: Nûk
- Esperanto: Godthåb
- Esperanto: Nuk
- Esperanto: Nuko
- Esperanto: Nuuk
- Esperanto: Nûk
- Estonian: Godthåb
- Estonian: Nuuk
- Estonian: Nûk
- Ewe: Nuuk
- Extremaduran: Nuuk
- Faroese: Godthåb
- Faroese: Nuk
- Faroese: Nuuk
- Faroese: Nûk
- Fiji Hindi: Nuuk
- Fijian: Nuuk
- Finnish: Godthåb
- Finnish: Nook
- Finnish: Nuk
- Finnish: Nuuk (Godthåb)
- Finnish: Nuuk
- Finnish: Nûk
- French: Godthåb
- French: Nuk
- French: Nuuk
- French: Nuuk (Godthåb)
- French: Nûk
- Friulian: Nuuk
- Fulah: Nuuk
- Gagauz: Nuuk
- Galician: Godthåb
- Galician: Nuk
- Galician: Nuuk
- Galician: Nûk
- Georgian: Nûk
- Georgian: ნუუკი
- German: Godthåb
- German: Nuk
- German: Nuuk
- German: Nuuk (Godthåb)
- German: Nûk
- Gheg Albanian: Nuuk
- Gothic: Nuuk
- Greek: Nuuk (Godthåb)
- Greek: Nûk
- Greek: Νουούκ
- Guarani: Nuuk
- Gujarati: નૂક
- Haitian: Nuuk
- Hakka Chinese: Nuuk
- Hausa: Nuuk
- Hawaiian: Nuuk
- Hebrew: נואוק
- Hebrew: נוק
- Herero: Nuuk
- Hindi: नुक
- Hiri Motu: Nuuk
- Hungarian: Godthåb
- Hungarian: Nuk
- Hungarian: Nuuk
- Hungarian: Nûk
- Icelandic: Godthåb
- Icelandic: Nuk
- Icelandic: Nuuk
- Icelandic: Nûk
- Ido: Godthab
- Ido: Nuk
- Ido: Nuuk
- Ido: Nûk
- Igbo: Nuuk
- Iloko: Nuuk
- Inari Sami: Nuuk
- Indonesian: Nuuk
- Indonesian: Nûk
- Interlingua: Nuuk
- Interlingue: Nuuk
- Interlingue: Nûk
- Inuktitut: ᓅᒃ
- Inupiaq: Nuuk
- Irish: Godthåb
- Irish: Nuuk
- Irish: Nûk
- Italian: Godthåb
- Italian: Nuk
- Italian: Nuuk (Godthåb)
- Italian: Nuuk
- Italian: Nûk
- Jamaican Creole English: Nuuk
- Japanese: ヌーク
- Javanese: Nuuk
- Kabyle: Nuuk
- Kadazan Dusun: Nuuk
- Kalaallisut: Godthåb
- Kalaallisut: Nuk
- Kalaallisut: Nuuk
- Kalaallisut: Nûk
- Kannada: ನುಕ್
- Kanuri: Nuuk
- Kara-Kalpak: Nuuk
- Kashubian: Nuuk
- Kazakh: Nuuk
- Kazakh: Нуук
- Kazakh: Нуук қаласы
- Kazakh: Нүүк
- Kikuyu: Nuuk
- Kinaray-A: Nuuk
- Kinyarwanda: Godthåb
- Kinyarwanda: Nuuk
- Kinyarwanda: Nûk
- Komi: Нук
- Kongo: Nuuk
- Korean: 누크
- Kuanyama: Nuuk
- Kurdish: Nuuk
- Kurdish: Nûk
- Kölsch: Nuuk
- Ladino: Godthåb
- Ladino: Nuk
- Ladino: Nuuk
- Ladino: Nûk
- Latgalian: Nuuk
- Latgalian: Nūka
- Latin: Godthåb
- Latin: Nuk
- Latin: Nuuk
- Latin: Nûk
- Latvian: Nuk
- Latvian: Nuuka
- Latvian: Nûk
- Latvian: Nūka
- Laz: Nuuk
- Ligurian: Nuuk
- Limburgan: Nuuk
- Lingala: Nuuk
- Lingua Franca Nova: Nuuk
- Lithuanian: Godthåb
- Lithuanian: Nuk
- Lithuanian: Nukas
- Lithuanian: Nuuk
- Lithuanian: Nûk
- Lojban: Nuuk
- Lombard: Nuuk
- Low German: Godthåb
- Low German: Nuk
- Low German: Nuuk
- Low German: Nûk
- Lower Silesian: Nuuk
- Lower Sorbian: Nuuk
- Lozi: Nuuk
- Lushai: Nuuk
- Luxembourgish: Nuk
- Luxembourgish: Nuuk
- Luxembourgish: Nûk
- Macedo-Romanian: Godthåb
- Macedo-Romanian: Nuuk
- Macedo-Romanian: Nûk
- Macedonian: Нук
- Mainfränkisch: Nuuk
- Malay: Godthåb
- Malay: Nuuk
- Malay: Nûk
- Malayalam: ന്യൂക്
- Maltese: Nuuk
- Manx: Godthåb
- Manx: Nuk
- Manx: Nuuk
- Manx: Nûk
- Maori: Godthåb
- Maori: Nuuk
- Maori: Nûk
- Mapudungun: Nuuk
- Marathi: नूक
- Mazanderani: نوک
- Megleno Romanian: Nuuk
- Min Dong Chinese: Nuuk
- Min Nan Chinese: Godthåb
- Min Nan Chinese: Nuuk
- Min Nan Chinese: Nûk
- Minangkabau: Nuuk
- Mingrelian: ნუუკი
- Mirandese: Nuuk
- Mongolian: Нуук
- Narom: Nuuk
- Nauru: Nuuk
- Navajo: Nuuk
- Ndonga: Nuuk
- Neapolitan: Nuuk
- Nepali: नुक
- Northern Frisian: Godthåb
- Northern Frisian: Nuk
- Northern Frisian: Nuuk
- Northern Frisian: Nûk
- Northern Sami: Godthåb
- Northern Sami: Nuk
- Northern Sami: Nuuk
- Northern Sami: Nûk
- Norwegian: Nuuk
- Norwegian Bokmål: Godthåb
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nuk
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nuuk
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nûk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Godthåb
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nuk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nuuk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nûk
- Novial: Nuuk
- Novial: Nûk
- Nyanja: Nuuk
- Occitan (post 1500): Godthåb
- Occitan (post 1500): Nuuk
- Occitan (post 1500): Nûk
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Godhopa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Godthåb
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Nuuk
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Nûk
- Oriya: ନୁକ
- Oromo: Nuuk
- Ossetian: Нуук
- Pampanga: Nuuk
- Pangasinan: Nuuk
- Panjabi: ਨੂਕ
- Papiamento: Nuuk
- Papiamento: Nûk
- Pedi: Nuuk
- Pennsylvania German: Nuuk
- Persian: نوک
- Pfaelzisch: Nuuk
- Picard: Godthåb
- Picard: Nuk
- Picard: Nuuk
- Picard: Nûk
- Piemontese: Godthåb
- Piemontese: Nuuk
- Piemontese: Nûk
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Godthåb
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Nuk
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Nuuk
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Nûk
- Plautdietsch: Nuuk
- Polish: Godthåb
- Polish: Nuk
- Polish: Nuuk
- Polish: Nûk
- Portuguese: Godthåb
- Portuguese: Nuk
- Portuguese: Nuuk
- Portuguese: Nûk
- Prussian: Nuuk
- Quechua: Nuuk
- Romanian: Godthåb
- Romanian: Nuk
- Romanian: Nuuk
- Romanian: Nûk
- Romansh: Nuuk
- Rundi: Nuuk
- Russian: Нуук
- Samoan: Nuuk
- Samogitian: Godthåb
- Samogitian: Nuk
- Samogitian: Nuuk
- Samogitian: Nuuks
- Samogitian: Nûk
- Sango: Nuuk
- Santali: Nuuk
- Sardinian: Nuuk
- Sassarese Sardinian: Nuuk
- Saterfriesisch: Nuuk
- Scots: Godthåb
- Scots: Nuk
- Scots: Nuuk
- Scots: Nûk
- Scottish Gaelic: Nuuk
- Serbian: Nuuk
- Serbian: Нук
- Serbo-Croatian: Godthåb
- Serbo-Croatian: Nuuk
- Serbo-Croatian: Nûk
- Seri: Nuuk
- Shona: Nuuk
- Sicilian: Godthåb
- Sicilian: Nuk
- Sicilian: Nuuk
- Sicilian: Nûk
- Silesian: Nuuk
- Sinhala: නූක්
- Slovak: Godthåb
- Slovak: Nuk
- Slovak: Nuuk
- Slovak: Nûk
- Slovenian: Godthåb
- Slovenian: Nuk
- Slovenian: Nuuk
- Slovenian: Nûk
- Somali: Nuuk
- Southern Sami: Nuuk
- Southern Sotho: Nuuk
- Spanish: Godthåb
- Spanish: Nuk
- Spanish: Nuuk
- Spanish: Nûk
- Sranan Tongo: Nuuk
- Swahili: Nuuk
- Swahili: Nûk
- Swedish: Godthåb
- Swedish: Nuk
- Swedish: Nuuk (Godthåb)
- Swedish: Nuuk
- Swedish: Nûk
- Swiss German: Nuuk
- Tachelhit: Nuuk
- Tagalog: Nuuk
- Tagalog: Nûk
- Tahitian: Nuuk
- Tajik: Nuuk
- Tajik: Нуук
- Tamil: நியூக்
- Tamil: நூக்
- Tarifit: Nuuk
- Tatar: Nuuk
- Tatar: Нуук
- Telugu: న్యూక్
- Tetum: Nuuk
- Thai: นุก
- Tok Pisin: Nuuk
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Nuuk
- Tornedalen Finnish: Nuuk
- Tsonga: Nuuk
- Tswana: Nuuk
- Tumbuka: Nuuk
- Turkish: Godthåb
- Turkish: Nuk
- Turkish: Nuuk
- Turkish: Nûk
- Turkmen: Nuk
- Turkmen: Nuuk
- Turkmen: Nûk
- Turoyo: Nuuk
- Udmurt: Нуук
- Uighur: Nuuk
- Ukrainian: Нуук
- Upper Sorbian: Nuuk
- Urdu: نوک
- Uzbek: Godthåb
- Uzbek: Nuk
- Uzbek: Nuuk
- Uzbek: Nûk
- Venda: Nuuk
- Venetian: Nuuk
- Veps: Nuuk
- Vietnamese: Godthåb
- Vietnamese: Nuuk
- Vietnamese: Nûk
- Vlaams: Nuuk
- Vlax Romani: Nuuk
- Volapük: Nuuk
- Votic: Nuuk
- Walloon: Nuuk
- Waray (Philippines): Godthåb
- Waray (Philippines): Nuk
- Waray (Philippines): Nuuk
- Waray (Philippines): Nûk
- Welsh: Godthåb
- Welsh: Nuk
- Welsh: Nuuk
- Welsh: Nûk
- Western Frisian: Godthåb
- Western Frisian: Nuk
- Western Frisian: Nuuk
- Western Frisian: Nûk
- Western Panjabi: نُوک
- Wolof: Nuuk
- Wu Chinese: 努克
- Xhosa: Nuuk
- Yakut: Нуук
- Yoruba: Godthåb
- Yoruba: Nuk
- Yoruba: Nuuk
- Yoruba: Nûk
- Yue Chinese: 努克
- Zeeuws: Nuuk
- Zhuang: Nuuk
- Zulu: Nuuk
Other Places Named Nuuk
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