Kugluktuk
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Kugluktuk (, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; ), known as Coppermine until 1 January 1996, is a hamlet at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island. It is Nunavut's westernmost community, near the border with the Northwest Territories.
Key facts
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- Kugluktuk
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- Qurluqtuqᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ
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- Hamlet
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- Kugluktuk.jpg
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- Hill top view of Kugluktuk
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- Canada Nunavut#Canada
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- Country
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- Canada
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- Territory
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- Nunavut
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- Region
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- Kitikmeot
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- Electoral district
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- Kugluktuk
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- Mayor
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- Ryan Nivingalok
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- MLA
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- Simon Kuliktana
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Kugluktuk (, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; ), known as Coppermine until 1 January 1996, is a hamlet at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island. It is Nunavut's westernmost community, near the border with the Northwest Territories.
The area's traditional language is Inuinnaqtun, which is written in the Latin alphabet, rather than the syllabics of the Inuktitut writing system. Like Cambridge Bay, Bathurst Inlet, and Umingmaktok, syllabics are rarely seen and are used mainly by the Government of Nunavut.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kugluktuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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