Qeqertalik
Qeqertalik
Kommune Qeqertalik | |
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![]() Location of Qeqertalik within Greenland | |
Coordinates (Qeqertalik Commune): 68°42′N 52°52′W / 68.700°N 52.867°WCoordinates: 68°42′N 52°52′W / 68.700°N 52.867°W | |
Sovereign state | Denmark |
Autonomous country | Greenland |
Municipality | Qeqertalik |
Established | 1 January 2018 |
Municipal center | Aasiaat |
Government | |
• Mayor | Ane Hansen (Inuit Ataqatigiit) |
Area | |
• Total | 62,400 km2 (24,100 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 6,340 |
Time zone | UTC-03, UTC-04 |
Calling code | +299 |
Website | qeqertalik.gl |
Qeqertalik (Greenlandic pronunciation: [qeqeʁtalik], English: The One with Islands, Danish: Den Ene med Øerne) is a municipality of Greenland created in 2018 from four southern regions of the former Qaasuitsup Municipality.
Geography[]
Qeqertalik Municipality is flanked in the south by the Qeqqata municipality and in the northeast by Avannaata. Over the ice cap, it is bordered in the east by the Sermersooq municipality, however this border runs north–south (45° West meridian) through the center of the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq), and as such is free of traffic.
Communities of Qeqertalik encircle Disko Bay, an inlet of the larger Baffin Bay, while the northeastern shores and Nuussuaq Peninsula belong to the neighboring municipality of Avannaata.
Politics[]
Qeqertalik's municipal council consists of 15 members, elected every four years.[2]
Municipal council[]
Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||
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A | D | IA | S | ||||||||||
2017 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 68.3% | Ane Hansen (IA) | |||||||
2021 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 70.0% | ||||||||
Data from Valg.gl |
Administrative divisions[]
Aasiaat area[]
- Aasiaat (Egedesminde)
- Akunnaaq
- Kitsissuarsuit (Hunde Ejlande, Dog's Island)
Kangaatsiaq area[]
Qasigiannguit area[]
- Qasigiannguit (Christianshåb)
- Ikamiut
Qeqertarsuaq area[]
- Qeqertarsuaq (Godhavn)
- Kangerluk
Language[]
Kalaallisut, the West Greenlandic dialect, is spoken in Kommune Qeqertalik along with Danish.
See also[]
References and notes[]
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- ^ "Population by Localities". Statistical Greenland. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Qeqertalik.gl "Kommunalbestyrelsen"
- Qeqertalik
- Disko Bay
- Municipalities of Greenland
- States and territories established in 2018
- 2018 establishments in Denmark
- Greenland geography stubs