It is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities closest to the capital are Iqaluit and St.
Nuuk contains almost a third of Greenland's population and its tallest building. Nuuk is also the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality.
In January , it had a population of 17, It is so named because of its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea.
The campus of the University of Greenland , hosting Statistics Greenland , and the main holdings of the Public and National Library of Greenland [3] are at the northern end of the district, near the road to the Nuuk Airport. The site has a long history of habitation. The area around Nuuk was first occupied by the ancient, pre-Inuit, Paleo-Eskimo people of the Saqqaq culture as far back as BC when they lived in the area around the now abandoned settlement of Qoornoq.
The Nuuk area was later inhabited by Viking explorers in the 10th century Western Settlement , and shortly thereafter by Inuit peoples.
