Aasiaat are on the 68 ° 42' latitude and 52 ° 45' longitude at a 10 km ² large island on the south side of the entrance to the Disko Bay.

There are dark times from 1/12 to 12/1, and midnight sun from 27/5 to 18/7 Aasiaat city was built at its current location in 1763. Aasiaat is a modern city with good transport connection - educational institutions and hospital. The city has a modern fish factory and shipyard, and is the base port for the oil drilling business.

Aasiaat was built as a colony under the name Egedesminde in 1759 by Hans Egede son Niels Rasch Egede in memory of his father at the bottom of the fjord Eqalugssuit north of Nordre Strømfjord. Background to the construction of the colony was to prevent the Dutch whaling and

trade with the indigenous population. In 1763 it was decided to relocate the colony to its current location, to a more central location in the great colonial district, between the colonies Christianshåb/Qasigiannguit in the north and Holsteinsborg/Sisimiut in the south.

Before the second world war Aasiaat was known as an education city, and transit point for North Greenland, during the war there was created an American weather station named Bluie West -5. With the removal of the colonial status in 1950 the city was integrated into a municipality with multiple settlements.

In 1999 Aasiaat municipality was merged together with seven other north Greenland municipality to a large municipality - Qaasuitsup Kommunea