Nuuk in Nuuk later became significant for the Greenlandic identity. During World War II, there was a reawakening to Greenlandic national identity. Greenlanders shared a written language and assembled a council under Eske Brun's leadership in Nuuk. In 1940, an American and a Canadian Consulate were established in Nuuk. Under new regulations in 1950, two councils amalgamated into one. This Countryside Council was abolished on 1 May 1979, when the city of Godthåb was renamed Nuuk by the Greenland Home Rule government. The city boomed during the 1950s when Denmark began to modernise Greenland. As in Greenland as a whole, Nuuk
Demographics of Afghanistan decade, which is due to the return of over 5 million expats. The only city in Afghanistan with over a million residents is its capital, Kabul. The other largest cities in the country are shown in the chart below. "0–14 years:" 42.3% (male 6,464,070/female 6,149,468) "15–64 years:" 55.3% (male 8,460,486/female 8,031,968) "65 years and over:" 2.4% (male 349,349/female 380,051) (2011 est.) In 1979, the population was reported to be about 15.5 million. 2.32% (2015) country comparison to the world: 39 "urbanization population:" 24% of the total population (2008) "rate of urbanization:" 5.4% annual rate of change (2005–10) "at birth:" 1.05