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
Capital District (Venezuela) According to the 2011 Census, the racial composition of the population was: Capital District (Venezuela) The Capital District () is Venezuela's federal district. It has an area of 433 km and there is only one administrative division ("municipio"), Libertador, which contains about half of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital city, which is also the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Venezuela (legislative, executive and judiciary). The population in 2004 was 2,073,768. The District borders on the states of Vargas and Miranda. Formerly it had its own local government with a governor, but the constitutional reform of 1999