Thule District

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Thule District was a former administrative district in northern Greenland that encompassed the remote Thule region, including the area around the Thule Air Base.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thule District canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative division ⓘ
former administrative district ⓘ
borderedBy Arctic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ
Baffin Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital Qaanaaq NERFINISHED ⓘ
Thule NERFINISHED ⓘ
climate polar climate ⓘ
contains Inuit settlements in Thule region ⓘ
Pituffik (Thule Air Base settlement) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Qaanaaq NERFINISHED ⓘ
Thule Air Base NERFINISHED ⓘ
U.S. military facilities ⓘ
area around Thule Air Base ⓘ
radar installations at Thule Air Base ⓘ
country Greenland NERFINISHED ⓘ
dissolvedIn 2009 ⓘ
ethnicGroup Inughuit NERFINISHED ⓘ
formerSubdivisionOf Greenland NERFINISHED ⓘ
language Danish ⓘ
Greenlandic ⓘ
locatedIn Arctic NERFINISHED ⓘ
Avannaata region (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ
North America ⓘ
Thule region NERFINISHED ⓘ
northern Greenland ⓘ
locatedOn Greenland NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter Thule region NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Kingdom of Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ
replacedBy Avannaata Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ
Qaasuitsup Municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ
significantEvent establishment of Thule Air Base ⓘ
relocation of Inughuit from Pituffik area ⓘ
sovereignState Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ
timeZone UTC−04:00 ⓘ
usedFor military purposes ⓘ

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Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Thule area → historicalName → Thule District ⓘ