Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality was one of the two municipalities of
East Greenland. Since 1 January 2009 it has been incorporated into the
Sermersooq municipality. It encompassed an area of 235,000 km² (91,000 sq mi) along the
Denmark Strait and the
Greenland Sea. Before the creation of the
Northeast Greenland National Park in 1974, the former municipality had been much bigger (935,000 km²), formally encompassing the largely uninhabited area to the north up to the border with
Avannaa (North Greenland).