Editing Nuuk (section)

== Economy ==
[[File:Nuuk-port.jpg|thumb|The port of Nuuk]]
[[File:Air Greenland headquarters, Nuuk (Quintin Soloviev).png|thumb|[[Air Greenland]] headquarters in Nuuk]]
Although only a small town, Nuuk has developed trade, business, shipping and other industries. It began as a small fishing settlement with a harbor, but as the economy developed rapidly during the 1970s and 1980s, the fishing industry in the capital declined.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXLAeyDeaUMC&pg=PA118 |first1=Michael |last1=Jones |first2=Kenneth |last2=Olwig |title=Nordic landscapes: region and belonging on the northern edge of Europe |publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]] | year=2008 |page=118|isbn=9780816639144 }}</ref> The port is nevertheless still home to almost half of Greenland's fishing fleet. The local [[Royal Greenland]] processing plant absorbs landed seafood amounting to over DKK 50 million (US$7&nbsp;million) per annum, mainly (80%) [[shrimp]], but also [[cod]], [[lumpfish]] and [[halibut]].<ref name="dsd" /> Seafood, including seal, is also sold in abundance in Nuuk's fish markets, the largest being [[Kalaaliaraq Market]]. Minerals including [[zinc]] and [[gold]] have contributed to the development of Nuuk's economy.<ref name="Barkham 2016">{{cite news |last=Barkham |first=Patrick |title=Greenland: the country set to cash in on climate change |newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 December 2016 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/23/climate-change-in-greenland-adaptation-we-simply-refuse-to-be-victimised |access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>

The city, like much of Greenland, is heavily dependent upon Danish investment and relies on Denmark for block funding.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hwi0s3I5jLEC&pg=PA164 |title=World of Information Regional Review: Europe |publisher=Kogan Page Publishers |year=2003 |page=164 |isbn=978-0-7494-4067-1}}</ref>

=== Energy ===
All of Greenland's electricity is supplied by the government-owned company [[Nukissiorfiit]], which has a [[monopoly]] on the electricity in Greenland.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nukissiorfiit.gl/nukissiorfiit/oqaluttuarisaaneq/?lang=da |title=Historie |publisher=Nukissiorfiit |access-date=21 December 2015 |language=da |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727075726/http://www.nukissiorfiit.gl/nukissiorfiit/oqaluttuarisaaneq/?lang=da |archive-date=27 July 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Since 1993, Nuuk has received its electric power mainly from [[Buksefjord hydroelectric power plant]] by way of a 132&nbsp;kV powerline crossing [[Ameralik Span|Ameralik fjord]] over a distance of {{cvt|5376|m}}, the world's longest free span.<ref name="North of 56"/><ref name="Arctic Business Network"/>

=== Education ===
[[File:Ilisimatusarfik-university-of-greenland.jpg|thumb|[[University of Greenland]]]]
Nuuk has several educational institutions of higher learning. The [[University of Greenland]] (Ilisimatusarfik), the only university in Greenland, is in Nuuk. The university was founded in 1987 and expanded in 2007 with the new building, ''Ilimmarfik'', housing departments of journalism, management and economics, language, literature and media, cultural and social history, theology and religion and social work. Nuuk is also home to the Department of Learning (Ilinniarfissuaq), the oldest educational facility in Greenland, in the old colonial part of Nuuk (''Nuutoqaq'': Old Nuuk). Other notable educational institutions include the Department of Nursing and Health Science, Nuuk Technical College and the Iron & Metal School.

=== Healthcare ===
[[File:Queen Ingrid's Health Center Entrance 2023.jpg|thumb|Queen Ingrid's Health Center]]
The city is served by [[Queen Ingrid's Hospital#Queen Ingrid's Health Center|Queen Ingrid's Health Center]]. The health center serves as the regional health center for Region Sermersooq. It has an emergency room, and a central clinic with several [[general practitioner]]s. Nuuk also has [[Queen Ingrid's Hospital]] which is the central hospital of Greenland.

=== Tourism ===
The [[Nuuk Tourist Office]] was built in 1992 to house the headquarters of the new National Tourist Board of Greenland.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7v0M2mZHpMC&q=Nuuk+Tourist+Office&pg=PA1458 |title=Europa World Year, Book 1 |publisher=Taylor & Francis Group |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-85743-254-1 |page=1458}}</ref>

=== Shopping ===
Shops in Nuuk offer local art and craftwork. In July 2012, Greenland's first shopping center, [[Nuuk Center]] ''(NC)'', opened. The center has Greenland's first underground parking. Several supermarkets exist, such as Nuuk Center, [[Pisiffik]], [[Brugseni]], and [[Spar (retailer)|Spar]].