Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality

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Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality was a large district in East Greenland, part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It covered about 235,000 square kilometers (91,000 square miles) along the Denmark Strait and the Greenland Sea. The population around 2005 was about 540 people. The main town was Ittoqqortoormiit, and the only other populated place was Itterajivit, 14 kilometers to the west, with about 9 residents. Before 1974, the area was much larger, up to about 935,000 square kilometers, reaching north to the border with Avannaa (North Greenland). On January 1, 2009, Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality merged into Sermersooq municipality.