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The Greenland constituency elect two MP representatives to the Kingdom Parliament (Folketinget) in Denmark, out of a total of 179. The current representatives are Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam of the Siumut Party and Aaja Chemnitz Larsen of the Inuit Community Party. [146] Greenland has national Parliament that consists of 31 representatives.
Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq is Greenland's most populous municipality, with 24,382 residents. It includes Nuuk , the capital and largest city of the territory. Avannaata Kommunia is the second most populous municipality, with 10,846 residents, primarily in Ilulissat , its largest city.
The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants. [1] In Greenland, two kinds of settled areas are distinguished: illoqarfik (Greenlandic for 'town'; by in Danish) and nunaqarfik (Greenlandic for 'settlement'; bygd in Danish).
The population of Greenland consists of Greenlandic Inuit (including mixed-race people), Danish Greenlanders and other Europeans and North Americans. The Inuit population makes up approximately 85–90% of the total (2009 est.). 6,792 people from Denmark live in Greenland, which is 12% of its total population.
Qaanaaq (Greenlandic pronunciation:), formerly known as Thule or New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.The town has a population of 646 as of 2020. [1]
Kuupik Kleist, former Prime Minister of Greenland (2009-2013) Nive Nielsen, Inuk singer and songwriter from Greenland, 2016 Kalaallisut is the official language of Greenland. [ 9 ] It is the western variety of the Greenlandic language, which is one of the Inuit languages within the Eskimo-Aleut family . [ 10 ]
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The northwest corner of Greenland is known as the Thule region.It is roughly the size of Germany, but inhabited by less than 1,000 people. The northernmost year-round communities on earth (Siorapaluk, Moriusaq, Savissivik, Qeqertat, and Qaanaaq) are in the Thule region.