page_title: Qeqqata
hierarchical_section_title: Qeqqata
caption_attribution_description: Montage of photographs from the Qeqqata Municipality, Greenland. top left: Davis Strait coastline top right: Celebrations of Greenland's National Day in Sisimiut bottom left: Sermersut Island bottom right: Kangerlussuaq Airport
context_page_description: Qeqqata is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. The administrative center of the municipality is in Sisimiut. It consists of the previously unincorporated area of Kangerlussuaq, as well as two former municipalities of western Greenland:
  Maniitsoq Municipality
  Sisimiut Municipality
context_section_description: Qeqqata (Greenlandic: [qeqːata], The Center, Danish: Centrum) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. The administrative center of the municipality is in Sisimiut (formerly called Holsteinsborg). It consists of the previously unincorporated area of Kangerlussuaq, as well as two former municipalities of western Greenland:
  Maniitsoq Municipality
  Sisimiut Municipality
caption: Clockwise from top left: Davis Strait, Sisimiut, Kangerlussuaq Airport, Sermersut Island
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