Qaqortoq
Qaqortoq, formerly Julianehåb, is a city in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located near Cape Thorvaldsen. With a population of 3,050 in 2020, it is the most populous town and the municipal capital in southern Greenland and the fourth or fifth-largest town on the island.Notable Places in the Area
Gertrud Rasch's Church
Church
Photo: Kenny McFly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qaqortoq, formerly Julianehåb, is a city in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located near Cape Thorvaldsen.
Church of Our Saviour
Church
Photo: Charele, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of Our Savior is a wooden Lutheran church in Qaqortoq, the largest town in southern Greenland.
Qaqortoq
- Type: City with 3,170 residents
- Description: town in Greenland
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Qaqortoq Municipality, Kujalleq, Southern Greenland, Greenland, North America
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Latitude
60.7182° or 60° 43' 6" northLongitude
-46.0385° or 46° 2' 19" westPopulation
3,170IATA airport code
JJUUnited Nations Location Code
GL JJUOpen Location Code
98GMPX96+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1894193598OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3420846Wikidata ID
Q221203Qaqortoq Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: قاقورتوق
- Arabic: كاكورتوك
- Armenian: Քակորտոք
- Asturian: Qaqortoq
- Belarusian: Какарток
- Belarusian: Какортак
- Catalan: Qaqortoq
- Cebuano: Qaqortoq (kapital sa munisipyo sa Greenland)
- Cebuano: Qaqortoq
- Chinese: 卡克托克
- Chinese: 卡科尔托克
- Cornish: Qaqortoq
- Czech: Qaqortoq
- Danish: Julianehåb
- Danish: Qaqortoq
- Dutch: Qaqortoq
- Egyptian Arabic: كاكورتوك
- English: Julianehåb
- Estonian: Qaqortoq
- Faroese: Qaqortoq
- Finnish: Qaqortoq
- French: Qaqortoq
- Georgian: კაკორტოკი
- German: Julianehåb
- German: Qaqortoq
- Hebrew: קאקורטוק
- Hebrew: קואקורטוק
- Hungarian: Qaqortoq
- Icelandic: Qaqortoq
- Indonesian: Qaqortoq
- Italian: Qaqortoq
- Japanese: カコトック
- Kalaallisut: Qaqortoq
- Komi: Какорток
- Korean: 콰코르톡
- Lithuanian: Kakortokas
- Macedonian: Какорток
- Northern Frisian: Qaqortoq
- Norwegian: Qaqortoq
- Norwegian Bokmål: Qaqortoq
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Iulianehopa
- Persian: قاقورتوق
- Persian: کاکورتوک
- Polish: Qaqortoq
- Portuguese: Qaqortoq
- Russian: Какорток
- Samogitian: Kakortoks
- Scots: Qaqortoq
- Serbian: Какорток
- Spanish: Qaqortoq
- Swedish: Qaqortoq
- Turkish: Qaqortoq
- Ukrainian: Какорток
- Urdu: قاقورتوق
- Julian Haab
- Julianehaab
- Kakortak
- Kakortok
- 카콕톡
Other Places Named Qaqortoq
In the Area
Qaqortoq is situated close to the quarters Bygning and Illoqarfittaat.
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Qaqortoq. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.