Napasoq (old spelling: ''Napassoq/Napâssoq'') is an island settlement in the

Qeqqata Qeqqata (, da, Centrum, lit=Centre) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. Th ...

municipality, in central-western

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 i ...

. Located on a small island on the shores of

Davis Strait Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer John ...

, it had 80 inhabitants in 2020.

Population

Napasoq is the smallest settlement in the municipality, and has been depopulating for the last two decades.Statistics Greenland
Its population has decreased more than a half relative to the 1990 levels, and by nearly 16 percent relative to the 2000 levels.

References

{{Authority control Davis Strait Populated places in Greenland Qeqqata