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[edit] Area??

The wording seems off. Is Nuuk really 635,000 square kilos? That is almost the size of Texas. If that is the case then 15,000 people spread out over the size of Texas is nothing. Or are all the 15,000 in one community and the rest is open land? Can someone clarify this??

4.142.123.34 (talk)eric —Preceding comment was added at 06:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Weird Wording

"...The city was founded in 1728 by the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede, and given the name Godthåb (Good Hope). However, Hans Egede had arrived at a place he called Colony of Hope close to the already existing Inuit population living in Kangeq. At this time, Greenland was a Norwegian colony under the Dano-Norwegian Crown, but the colony had not had any contact with Norway proper for more than two centuries..."

This paragraph seems very confusing to me. When Hans Egede arrived, he found *no* European colonists at all, right? The Greenland "colony" only existed as a legal construct by 1728-- the old Scandinavian colonists were long gone (dead, assimilated, whatever) and essentially all Greenlanders were Inuit when he arrived. Intentional or not, this paragraph seems to imply that some vestige of the European colony still survived when Hans Egede arrived. I wouldn't dare edit such a vigorously monitored article myself, but I'd like to request that the current active author(s) revise this paragraph for clarity. Please! 69.129.196.12 (talk) 09:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Name: Nuuk vs. Godthåb

"Nuuk" is the most commonly accepted name for this city in English ;it is listed by Lonely Planet guides as being the common name of this city.Vancouverguy 00:33, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The city's name is Godthåb. Finito! I know this better than you, Sir! (Please see the swedish wikipedia: Godthåb, not "Nuuk")
Just like Königsberg's name is Königsberg (and not "Kaliningrad")
Not in English. Nor does the city itself officially accept the Godthåb name. --mav 00:38, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
This is the English version of Wikipedia, not Danish therefore the names as they are known to English speakers are used.Vancouverguy 00:38, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
The Times Atlas of the World, Tenth Edition (which is pretty authoritative!) shows it as Nuuk (Godthåb), but the bracketed name is shown very small compared with the labelling of Nuuk. GRAHAMUK 01:27, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)


Try this for evidence: http://dk.nanoq.gl/enhed.asp?page=enhed&objno=522

Or indeed this, an official publication of the Danish Government: http://www.denmark.dk/servlet/page?_pageid=80&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&_fsiteid=175&_fid=48229&page_id=1&_feditor=0&folder.p_show_id=48229 -- The Anome 01:31, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)


Greenland is commonly known as Kaallit Nunaat in foreign countries such as france. By Courbit

[edit] Protected/unprotected

I protected Nuuk. Hopefully in the right form (ie - not redirecting to Godthåb). Angela 00:41, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks, protect Godthab as well.Vancouverguy 00:42, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Done Godthåb and reprotected Nuuk - did someone unprotect it? Angela
Actually, maybe it wasn't unprotected - just the redirect bug makes it look that way. Angela

As well, protect GodthŒb or delete it.Vancouverguy 00:50, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Deleted it. -- The Anome 01:30, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Big rush!

Wow a huge rush of talk on the talk page!... and still the article has gained no content since the initial stub in May 2002... looks like I am going to have to try to knuckle down and help out here! Pete 07:18, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

Damn...I put it at Nuuk because that's the official name of the place since home rule in 1979. It's too bad people who know more than I do don't add to the page rather than fight about something they could confirm in five minutes... John

[edit] Coordinates wrong...

I tried looking up the coordinates on Google Earth and they point to the southern tip of Greenland...the lat/long are definitely not correct! --Michael

I also tried that. They seem to point reasonably accurately to Nasarsuaq, maybe they have been swapped.

[edit] "Norwegian name"

Someone included Godthåp as a Norwegian spelling of the name. This spelling is not used in Norwegian, it is called Nuuk or Godthåb (see nn-wiki and no-wiki) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barend (talk • contribs)

True. That is because the spelling reform of the Norwegian orthography/-ies that changed the spelling of the word håp from its archaic form Haab were enacted many decades after Norway's ties with Greenland were severed following the Dano-Norwegian defeat in one of the Napoleonic Wars. And so one could say that the City of Nuuk and the Norwegian language have gone their separate ways owing to the irks of history. // Big Adamsky • BA's talk page 15:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Population, anyone?71.106.97.72 23:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Please add population information of Nuuk!

14.501 in Nuuk town (01.01.2005) According to Greenland Statistics, and 14.874 in the Municipality. Jens Nielsen 07:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Please don't seem every editing as vandaism!

[edit] Western Settlement?

Western Settlement (Greenland) redirects here - why? Can that be mentioned in the history section? --AW 22:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Greenland

Have a look at WikiProject Greenland and join up. -- Fyslee/talk 07:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)