It may not look like a bustling metropolis, but Nuuk is Greenland’s largest city and capital. Fewer than 56,000 people live in Greenland, and nearly a third of them reside in the modern comfort of Nuuk. Greenland is a constituent country of Denmark, and in Nuuk, the Danes have been a modernizing influence on the city, even here in Old Nuuk, a part of town established in the 1740s. Despite the Danish presence, the majority of Greenland’s population is Greenlandic Inuit. Nuuk began as a coastal fishing settlement, and much of Greenland’s commercial fishing fleet is still based out of the city’s harbor, which is also used as a shipping port.
Winter in Old Nuuk
Today in History
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Feeling lazy? Today s your day.
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Last day of National Park Week
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC
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Marshland, Gloucester, MA
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Citizenship Day and Constitution Day
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Atop the roof of Africa
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The Unfinished Obelisk near Aswan, Egypt
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Prague, Czech Republic
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Fiddlehead fern fronds
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Crimson-rumped toucanet in the Refugio Paz de Las Aves, Ecuador
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A misty morning in Brazil
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It s National Mushroom Month!
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Bay Marker Lookout, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia
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The owl that loved football
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A look at Uranus, seventh planet from the sun
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Patriot Day
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Let the Highland games begin
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Yarn bombing in the village of Gurnard, England
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It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball
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Pascua Florida Day
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Best fronds forever
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A truly American monument
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Under Parisian skies
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A day to celebrate the sun
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Goðafoss waterfall, Iceland
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A history of Vinland
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World Art Day
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What a twist
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Sanday Island and the North Sea, Scotland
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National Park Week begins