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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Lake Bled, Slovenia
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Black-naped monarch
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Saint Dwynwen s Day
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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Silver-studded blue butterflies
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A star blows a bubble
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Travel Sunday: Liverpool
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Languid life on the Lakes
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Sands of time
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Northern cardinal in winterberry bush
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Anniversary of Pinnacles National Park, California
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Tour de France begins
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Hallstatt, Austria
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Flocking together in the Antarctic
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On the wings of the Wright brothers
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European river otter, Netherlands
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The old guard at Old San Juan
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World Architecture Day
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Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
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A silent witness to history
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Overlooking the Douro