Ammassivik
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Ammassivik (old spelling: Angmagssivik) is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The modern name is the Kalaallisut for "where you catch ammassaat (capelin)". Its population was 74 in 2010. As of 1 January 2024, its population was 32.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in GL, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 86 inbound references to Ammassivik, and connects out to Danish Realm, administrative territorial entity of Greenland and Internet.
Vinony files it under Kujalleq and Populated places in Greenland.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
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cached 2148h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Ammassivik
- Region
- Kujalleq
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 32
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ammassivik
- Settlement.other_name
- Sletten
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ammassivik church 1892.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- The church in Ammassivik, 1892
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 22px Kujalleq
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 29
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −02:00
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- Western Greenland Summer Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- −01:00
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rural area
- Official name
- Sletten
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Kujalleq
- Population
- 34
- Area
- 0.51
- Elevation
- 22
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Image
- Ammassivik church 1892.jpg
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- Ammassivik
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- Ammassivik
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Transport and communications
- Geography
- Population
- References
Ammassivik (old spelling: Angmagssivik) is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The modern name is the Kalaallisut for "where you catch ammassaat (capelin)". Its population was 74 in 2010. As of 1 January 2024, its population was 32.
The settlement was founded in 1889 as Sletten. In 1899, a school the Isak Lundip atuarfia was built in the settlement by Danish missionaries. The school had 6 students in 2005.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ammassivik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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3 mapped locations