page_title: List of cities and towns in Greenland
hierarchical_section_title: List of cities and towns in Greenland
caption_attribution_description: English: Nuussuaq district in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, with the Sermitsiaq mountain in background
context_page_description: This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2020. The term 'city' is loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 18,326 inhabitants. In Greenland two kinds of settled areas are distinguished: illoqarfik and nunaqarfik. The difference between the two decreased since the new administrative units were introduced in 2009, with the influence of previous municipality centers decreasing.
  As of January 2020, Greenland has 56,081 people living along the coast and many islands. There are no permanent human landlocked settlements or towns in Greenland; the only landlocked human settlements that exist are seasonal research stations.
context_section_description: This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2020. The term 'city' is loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 18,326 inhabitants. In Greenland two kinds of settled areas are distinguished: illoqarfik (Greenlandic for 'town'; by in Danish) and nunaqarfik (Greenlandic for 'settlement'; bygd in Danish). The difference between the two decreased since the new administrative units were introduced in 2009, with the influence of previous municipality centers decreasing.
  As of January 2020, Greenland has 56,081 people living along the coast and many islands. There are no permanent human landlocked settlements or towns in Greenland; the only landlocked human settlements that exist are seasonal research stations.
caption: Nuuk skyline with the Sermitsiaq mountain in the background
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