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Qeqqata
Sign in to saveQeqqata (, ) 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 9,179 as of January 2025. The administrative center of the municipality is in Sisimiut (formerly called Holsteinsborg).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qeqqata
- Settlement.official_name
- Qeqqata Municipality
- Settlement.type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Qeqqata-montage.jpg
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- Qeqqata municipality
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clockwise from top left: Davis Strait, Sisimiut, Kangerlussuaq Airport, Sermersut Island
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Qeqqata.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of arms Qeqqata.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Qeqqata in Greenland 2018.svg
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- Location of the Qeqqata municipality within Greenland
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- 250px
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- Qeqqata Commune
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- Sovereign state
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- Autonomous territory
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- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1 January 2009
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal center
- Settlement.seat
- Sisimiut
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Greenland
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Greenland
- Capital
- Sisimiut
- Population
- 9179
- Area
- 115500
- Head of government
- Malik Berthelsen
- Shares border with
- Qeqertalik
- Official website
- www.qeqqata.gl
- Image
- Qeqqata-montage.jpg
- Licence plate code
- GR
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- Commons category
- Qeqqata
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- topic's main category
- Category:Qeqqata
- inception
- 2009-01-01
- replaces
- Sisimiut Municipality
- postal code
- 3912
- phone number
- +299 702100
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Creation
- Geography
- Politics
- Municipal council
- Administrative divisions
- Maniitsoq area
- Sisimiut area
- Transport
- See also
- References
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 9,179 as of January 2025. The administrative center of the municipality is in Sisimiut (formerly called Holsteinsborg).
==Creation== It consists of the previously unincorporated area of Kangerlussuaq and two former municipalities of western Greenland, Maniitsoq and Sisimiut.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qeqqata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations