Nuuk Nuuk Nuuk (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Greenland. It is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities closest to the capital are Iqaluit and St. John's in Canada and Reykjavík in Iceland. Nuuk contains almost a third of Greenland's population and its tallest building. Nuuk is also the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality. In January 2018, it had a population of 17,796. The city was founded in 1728 by the Dano-Norwegian governor Claus Paarss when he relocated Hans Egede's earlier Hope Colony () to the
Indonesian future capital city proposal Jakarta by reviving the idea of relocating its political and administrative center elsewhere. In 2010, debate continued about the creation of a new capital city that would be separated from the urban, economic, and commercial center of the country. Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono supported the idea to create a new political and administrative center of Indonesia, due to Jakarta's environmental and overpopulation problems. Bandung, the planned capital of the Dutch colonial era, was ruled out however, since the capital of West Java province itself is currently overpopulated and suffering ecological breakdown. In April 2017, the Joko Widodo administration contemplated