Kapisillit
{{Short description|Settlement in Greenland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Kapisillit
| other_name = Lakskaj
| image_skyline = Kapisillit.jpg
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| pushpin_map = Greenland
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location within Greenland
| pushpin_mapsize = 300
| subdivision_type = State
| subdivision_name = {{Flag|Kingdom of Denmark}}
| subdivision_type1 = Constituent country
| subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Greenland}}
| subdivision_type2 = Municipality
| subdivision_name2 = 22px Sermersooq
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Morten Johnsen
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| population_as_of = 2024
| population_total = 43
| timezone1 = Western Greenland Time
| utc_offset1 = −02:00
| timezone1_DST = Western Greenland Summer Time
| utc_offset1_DST = −01:00
| coordinates = {{coord|64|26|10|N|50|16|10|W|region:GL|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 3900 Nuuk
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Kapisillit (Danish: Lakskaj) is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. The settlement had 43 inhabitants in 2024.{{cite web|title = Population by Localities|url = http://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXST4.PX/?rxid=a1551b20-d1d5-4bcf-a80c-de114c001595|publisher = Statistical Greenland|access-date = 19 July 2020|archive-date = 19 July 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200719030202/http://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXST4.PX/?rxid=a1551b20-d1d5-4bcf-a80c-de114c001595|url-status = dead}} Kapisillit means "the salmon" in the Greenlandic language ({{langx|da|laks, laksen}}).{{cite book|last=O'Carroll|first=Etain|title=Greenland and the Arctic|publisher=Lonely Planet|pages=94|date=2005|isbn=1-74059-095-3}} The name refers to the belief that the only spawning-ground for salmon in Greenland is a river near the settlement.{{cite web |url=http://www.nuuk-tourism.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=248 |publisher=Nuuk Tourism |title=Settlements |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928085127/http://www.nuuk-tourism.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=248 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}
Geography
Kapisillit is located {{convert|75|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of Nuuk, near the head of Kapisillit Kangerluaq,{{cite book|last=O'Carroll|first=Etain|title=Greenland and the Arctic|publisher=Lonely Planet|pages=154|year=2005|isbn=1-74059-095-3}} one of the tributary fjords of the {{convert|160|km|mi|1|abbr=on}} long,{{cite web|url=http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php |publisher=Norwegian University of Science and Technology |title=TIL OPPLYSNING |access-date=12 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615162130/http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php |archive-date=15 June 2011 }} Nuup Kangerlua, the longest fjord on the Labrador Sea coast of Greenland, and one of the longest in the inhabited part of the country.
Economy
The inhabitants mostly subsist on hunting, fishing and tourism. The settlement has its own school, church, and grocery store.
= Transport =
Transport to Kapisillit is done by boat. Helicopter is sometimes used. There is no road from outside to Kapisillit, although there are plans to build a simple road from Nuuk to Kapisillit.[http://knr.gl/da/nyheder/kapisillit-vej-skal-booste-turismen Kapisillit-vej skal booste turismen]
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Population
The population of Kapisillit has declined by nearly a third relative to the 2000 levels, levelling off since.[http://bank2.stat.gl/ Statistics Greenland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812052835/http://bank2.stat.gl/ |date=2011-08-12 }} As of 1 January 2024, the settlement had 43 inhabitants
{{wide image|Kapisillit-population-dynamics.png|1000px|Kapisillit population decline dynamics in the last two decades. Source: Statistics Greenland|alt=Kapisillit population dynamics}}