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Hotel Hans Egede

Nuuk, Greenland, Denmark

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3062720 ↗
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Hotel Hans Egede is a four-star hotel in Nuuk, Greenland. It is named after Hans Egede, is the largest hotel in Nuuk and was built in 1987. The hotel is located on the main street, Aqqusinersuaq.

It has 140 rooms and 10 apartments and is commonly used for conferences. There are two restaurants in the hotel, Restaurant Sarfalik and A Hereford Beefstouw. The hotel has one bar, the Skyline Bar, which is located on the top floor and which has a view over Nuuk. The hotel can accommodate conferences of up to 350 people.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987. The account is most persuasive where Hotel, Hans and Egede can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hotel Hans Egede” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.