Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq

Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq (where to have a commune with lots of ice cream)
Sermersooq commune
Nuuk
Geographical location	66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W
Residents	22,738 (2018)
Post Code	3900-3992
founding	2009
Time zone	UTC-3

Location of Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq in Greenland

Coat of arms of Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq

Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq ( Danish Sermersooq Kommune , in German where you have a commune with lots of ice ) is a large Greenlandic municipality with a population of 22,738 people and an area of ​​635,600 km². The seat of the local government is the Greenlandic capital Nuuk .

location

Sermersooq is located in the southern part of Greenland across from west to east. In the north-east the municipality borders on the non-parish area of the Northeast Greenland National Park , in the north and north-west on Qeqqata Kommunia and in the south on Kujalleq commune .

history

Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq was founded on January 1st, 2009 by amalgamating the previous municipalities Ivittuut , Paamiut , Nuuk , Ittoqqortoormiit and Ammassalik . The municipality thus includes parts of the former administrative districts of Kitaa and Tunu .

mayor

• 2009–2019: Asii Chemnitz Narup
• since 2019: Charlotte Ludvigsen

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality was designed by Tina Windahl Halle and shows the ice-covered sea, an Inussuk and the sun.

Town twinning

• Aalborg , Denmark
• Dalvík , Iceland
• Gentofte , Denmark
• Herlev , Denmark
• Kópavogur , Iceland
• Lyngby-Taarbæk , Denmark

See also

• Administrative division of Greenland

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures for municipalities January 1, 2018 at bank.stat.gl
2. ↑ History at sermersooq.gl
3. ^ Sermersooq. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 4, 2010 ; Retrieved December 23, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.