Maniitsoq
Maniitsoq, with 2,486 inhabitants, is located on an island in an archipelago area, and parts of the town are cut through by small canals where islands are conne...
Kangerlussuaq
For more than 4,000 years, the Kangerlussuaq area has been used by humans as hunting preserve for caribou hunters and trout fishermen, and you will be able to f...
Tasiilaq
Located on the shore of a fjord that looks like a lake, the town got the name, Tasiilaq, which means ‘the place that looks like a lake’. Tasiilaq has a popu...
Paamiut
Paamiut’s location at the mouth of the fjord Kuannersooq (Kvanefjord) has given the town its Greenlandic name meaning ‘those who reside by the mouth’. Fou...
Nuuk
Nuuk means ‘headland’ in Greenlandic and describes the place where the town was founded in 1728. The town is located at the mouth of the extensive fjord sys...
Ittoqqortoormiit
On the border with the National Park in Northeast Greenland and at the mouth of the world’s largest fjord system, Kangertittivaq (Scoresby Sound), lies the no...
Narsarsuaq
Narsarsuaq means ‘great plain’ and refers to the moraine plain between the Tunulliarfik fjord and the Kiattuut Sermiat glacier, where the settlement and air...
Locations with agriculture and sheep farming
The first known farms with livestock in Greenland are attributed to the Norse who settled around the year 985, after Erik the Red had visited and named the coun...
Towns and settlements
Since the Danish modernisation of Greenland in continuation of World War II, settlements, their importance and development have stirred debate, both culturally,...
The five regional municipalities
After the municipal reform in 2009 and an adjustment in 2018, when the northern municipality was divided into two, Greenland is administratively divided into fi...