Siorapaluk

Siorapaluk Hiurapaluk
Siorapaluk
Siorapaluk Location within Greenland
Coordinates: 77°47′08″N 70°38′00″W / 77.78556°N 70.63333°W / 77.78556; -70.63333
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Greenland
Municipality	Avannaata
Population  (2020)
• Total	43
Time zone	UTC-04
Postal code	3971 Qaanaaq

Siorapaluk (West Greenlandic) or Hiurapaluk (Polar Inuit) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. The settlement is located in the northern shore of the Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord).^[1] It has a population of 43^[2] who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic. Many of the inhabitants are direct descendants of the last migration of Inuit from Canada in the 20th century.^{[citation needed]}

Siorapaluk is the northernmost inhabited public settlement in Greenland, and one of the northernmost such settlements in the world, surpassed only by a few villages in Svalbard. It is also the world's northernmost place inhabited by natives.