Nutaarmiut (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an island settlement in

Avannaata Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants. Geography In ...

municipality, in northwestern

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 ...

. It had 43 inhabitants in 2020.

Upernavik Archipelago

Nutaarmiut is located within Upernavik Archipelago, a vast archipelago of islands on the coast of northeastern

Baffin Bay Baffin Bay ( Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; kl, Avannaata Imaa; french: Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arct ...

. Nutaarmiut Island has an area of 1.51 km².

Population

The population of Nutaarmiut has decreased by over a 40 percent relative to the 1990 levels, and has been steadily decreasing in the 2000s.Statistics Greenland

References

{{Upernavik Archipelago Populated places in Greenland Populated places of Arctic Greenland Tasiusaq Bay Upernavik Archipelago