Nuuk mainland, and was named Godthåb ("Good Hope"). The city officially adopted its current name in 1979, although the name "Godthåb" remained in use in Danish. "Nuuk" is the Kalaallisut word for "cape" (). It is so named because of its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea. Its latitude, at 64°10' N, makes it the world's northernmost capital, only a few kilometres farther north than the Icelandic capital Reykjavík. The campus of the University of Greenland, hosting Statistics Greenland, and the main holdings of the Public and National Library of
Metropolis Czech metropolis is Prague with more than 1 300 000 living within the city limits and with more than 2 600 000 million living in its metropolitan area, which makes it one of largest in Europe. In Denmark the only metropolis is the capital, Copenhagen, situated in the Capital Region of Denmark. It has more than 750 000 living in city proper and 1 280 000 in its urban area Finland's capital, Helsinki, along with the neighboring areas forms a metropolitan area with an approximate population of 1.45 million people. This area is the only metropolis in the country. A