Nuuk is the largest town-and the capital-with roughly one third of the country's urban population.

Since the success of the 1993 Buksefjord dam, whose distribution path to Nuuk includes the Ameralik Span the long-term policy of the Greenland government is to produce the island's electricity from renewable domestic sources.

Nuuk, formerly Godthåb, is the capital of Greenland, the northernmost capital in the world, and the largest city in Greenland.

Nuuk is the largest cultural and economic center in Greenland.

Nuuk is the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality.

As in Greenland as a whole, Nuuk is populated today by both Inuit and Danes.

Nuuk is located at approximately.

With 15, 469 inhabitants as of 2010, Nuuk is the fastest growing town in Greenland, with migrants from the smaller towns and settlements reinforcing the trend.

As the capital of Greenland, Nuuk is the administrative center of the country, containing all of the important government buildings and institutions.

The current mayor of Nuuk is Asii Chemnitz Narup from the Inuit Ataqatigiit party.

Greenland's Self Government Parliament, the Inatsisartut, is located in Nuuk.

KANUKOKA () is based in Nuuk.

is sold in abundance in Nuuk and the capital contains a number of fish markets, the largest being Kalaaliaraq Market.

The University of Greenland ( Ilisimatusarfik ), which is the only university in Greenland, is located in Nuuk.

Built in 1979, it is a focus city for Air Greenland, which is also headquartered in Nuuk, and operates its technical base at the airport.

Air Iceland www. airiceland. is flies regularly between Reykjavik Iceland and Nuuk.

For most of the year, Nuuk is served twice-weekly by coastal ferries of Arctic Umiaq Line which link the communities of the western coast.

The main street in Nuuk is Aqqusinersuaq, with a number of shops and the 140-room Hotel Hans Egede.

Greenland National Museum is located in Nuuk and was one of the first museums established in Greenland, inaugurated in the mid-1960s.

The Nuuk Art Museum is the only private art and crafts museum in Greenland.

There are ports at Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq ( also known by its Danish name Søndre Strømfjord ), Qaqortoq, Narsaq, Nuuk ( Godthåb ), Aasiaat and Sisimiut.

Nuuk also has the Godthåbhallen, a handball stadium.

With connections to Iceland, Nuuk Airport is also one of 6 international airports in Greenland.

An expansion of the airport is not an acceptable option also due to the approach over the urbanized area of the outlying districts of Nuuk, although the issue continues to be a subject of internal debate in Greenland.

Nuuk Airport is also home to the Beechcraft King Air B200 " Amaalik ", used for air ambulance flights and occasional charters.

The airport is also used for various charter flights, such as airlifts to the summit of the Sermitsiaq Mountain, a landmark of Nuuk, located on Sermitsiaq Island north of the airport.

Other notable educational institutions include the Department of Nursing and Health Science, Nuuk Technical College and the Iron & Metal School.

Three Moravian missionaries under Matthias Stach arrived in 1733 and began the first of a series of mission stations at Neu-Herrnhut ( which later developed into the modern capital Nuuk ), but a returning Inuit child brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years.

Nuuk's sports clubs include Nuuk IL ( established in 1934 ), B-67, and GSS Nuuk.

* Additionally, American Samoa, Australia, the Azores, Brunei, Cape Verde, The Comoros, The Cook Islands, the Faroe Islands, The Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Iceland, Madagascar, the Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, the Philippines, Réunion, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Seychelles, Samoa, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna are covered as stand-alone regions, as are Nuuk in Greenland, parts of Indonesia ( Bali, Borneo, Java, Lombok, Madura, Sulawesi and Sumatra ), Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, parts of Papua New Guinea, parts of Solomon Islands and Socotra in Yemen.

Akilia Island is an island in southwestern Greenland, about 22 kilometers south of Nuuk ( Godthåb ), at.

* Nuuk Airport ( IATA airport code ), in Nuuk, Greenland

Nuuk has several educational institutions of higher learning.

( First place: Nuuk, Greenland ; the Icelandic capital Rekyjavik takes second place globally and ranks as the northernmost capital city in all of Europe )

In 2009 Air Greenland reportedly was interested in starting a route from Iqaluit to Nuuk.

* 2002-Iqaluit, along with Nuuk, Greenland, co-host the first jointly hosted Arctic Winter Games ; the Arctic Winter Games Arena was constructed in Iqaluit for the event.

Around 1850, Greenland and especially the area around Nuuk were in crisis.

This Countryside Council was abolished on May 1, 1979, when the city of Godthåb was renamed Nuuk by the Greenland Home Rule government.

The Nuuk Tourist Office was built in 1992 to house the headquarters of the new National Tourist Board of Greenland.

The majority of the 72 buses and 2, 570 cars owned in Greenland ( as of 2004 ) operate in Nuuk.

The Church of Our Savior, the Nuuk Cathedral of the Lutheran diocese of Greenland, was built in 1849.

Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland, is located in Nuuk and is the national university of Greenland.