Aqqusinersuaq is a major street in

Nuuk Nuuk (; da, Nuuk, formerly ) is the capital and largest city of Greenland, a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities from other co ...

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

. The street runs through the

City Centre A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms exist in other languages, such as "" in Fren ...

with one lane in either direction. It begins at the

Nuuk Port and Harbour Nuuk Port and Harbour is the largest port in Greenland. It is located in the southeastern area of the city of Nuuk known as Old Nuuk. The harbour entrance is restricted due to tides during much of the year, and ice during winter. The inner p ...

heading south and turns north at Sipisaq Kujalleq and then northwest at 400-talik

roundabout A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford En ...

(where it meets Eqalugalinnguit) and ends when it meets HJ Rinksvej Aqqutaa. The road runs through Nuuk's business centre, and many of the city's major landmarks are located along or nearby the street such as Hotel Hans Egede, Nuuk's City Hall (Nuuk Rådhus), and the

Bank of Greenland The BANK of Greenland ( da, GrønlandsBANKEN) is one of two commercial banks in Greenland, listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange as GRLA, with 2,700 shareholders in 2017. Headquartered in Nuuk, the bank had 118 employees in 2017. History The ...

. Aqqusinersuaq also housed

Blok P Blok P, in Nuuk, was the largest residential building in all of Greenland. It contained around 320 apartments and it is said that approximately 1% of the total population of the entire island lived in the building. The building was demolished on ...

, a notorious apartment building that was demolished in 2012.

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