Greenland Municipalities

Municipalities of Greenland

The secondary administrative divisions of Greenland are kommuner (municipalities). This map shows them.

Municipality	HASC	1970-01-01	1980-01-01	1990-01-01	1996-01-01	Danish
Aasiaat	`GL.VG.AA`	3,572	3,495	3,599	3,306	Egedesminde
Avanersuaq	`GL.NG.AV`	628	771	846	879	Thule
Ilulissat	`GL.VG.IL`	1,992	4,062	4,568	4,548	Jakobshavn
Ittoqqortoormiit	`GL.EG.IT`	508	496	554	506	Scoresbysund
Ivittuut	`GL.VG.IV`	75	37	4	184	Ivigtut
Kangaatsiaq	`GL.VG.KA`	1,190	1,162	1,347	1,518	Kangatsiak
Maniitsoq	`GL.VG.MA`	3,678	3,926	4,075	3,866	Sukkertoppen
Nanortalik	`GL.VG.NN`	2,885	2,801	2,672	2,605	Nanortalik
Narsaq	`GL.VG.NR`	2,184	2,064	2,148	2,077	Narssaq
Nuuk	`GL.VG.NU`	7,963	9,561	12,687	13,286	Godthåb
Paamiut	`GL.VG.PA`	2,496	2,619	2,556	2,320	Frederikshåb
Qaqortoq	`GL.VG.QQ`	3,212	3,056	3,543	3,550	Julianehåb
Qasigiannguit	`GL.VG.QG`	1,841	1,877	1,712	1,620	Christianshåb
Qeqertarsuaq	`GL.VG.QE`	977	1,012	1,164	1,162	Godhavn
Sisimiut	`GL.VG.SI`	3,562	4,201	5,090	5,365	Holsteinsborg
Tasiilaq	`GL.EG.TA`	2,483	2,618	2,889	2,966	Angmagssalik
Unorganized	`GL.NG.UO`	772	1,423	1,052	603
Upernavik	`GL.VG.UP`	1,907	2,089	2,375	2,794	Upernavik
Uummannaq	`GL.VG.UM`	2,369	2,503	2,677	2,708	Umanak
Vaigat		1,037				Vaigat
20 municipalities		46,331	49,773	55,558	55,863
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. The middle two letters identify the part of Greenland (lansdele). For key, see "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries". Note: Unorganized territory may fall in more than one part. Dates: Populations at that date. Source: Greenland 1997 - Statistical Yearbook Danish: Former name of municipality, usually the Danish name.

Change history:

Thomas Waldorff writes that the Greenlandic language underwent a spelling reform in 1973. Among other things, the letters â, ê, î, ô, and û were replaced by aa, ee, ii, oo, and uu, respectively, and the letter 'ĸ' was replaced by 'q'. (If your browser won't display this last one, it's described in Unicode as "Latin small letter kra", and looks like a small-cap k with a curved upper right branch.)
1971-01-01: Ilimanaq (Claushavn) transferred from Qasigiannguit municipality to Ilulissat municipality.
~1973: Vaigat municipality abolished. Judging from maps before and after the change, it merged with Qeqertarsuaq; however, the population history would make more sense if Vaigat had merged with Ilulissat, which also neighbored it.

Other names of municipalities:

Avanersuaq: Qaanaaq (variant)
Ittoqqortoormiit: Illoqqortoormiut (variant)
Tasiilaq: Ammassalik (variant)

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