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Northern Canada
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Region of Canada. Northern Canada is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Territories
- Northwest Territories Nunavut Yukon
- Largest city
- Whitehorse
- Total
- 3,535,263 km (1,364,973 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.033423/km (0.086566/sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Part of
- Canada
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Whitehorse
- Contains
- Northwest Territories
- Population
- 113604
- Area
- 9984670
- Image
- Taiga Landscape in Canada.jpg
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- Commons category
- Northern Canada
- topic's main category
- Category:Northern Canada
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- John D. Rockefeller
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Encyclopedic overview
Northern Canada (French: le Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. This area covers about 48 per cent of Canada's total land area, but has less than 0.5 per cent of Canada's population.
The terms "northern Canada" or "the North" may be used in contrast with the far north, which may refer to the Canadian Arctic, the portion of Canada that lies north of the Arctic Circle, east of Alaska and west of Greenland. That said, in many other uses the two areas are treated as a single unit. Lastly, northern areas of Canadian provinces have been called the "Provincial North".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Northern Canada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.