Nunavut
Sign in to saveNunavut is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government. The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador) was admitted in 1949.
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Nunavut is Canada's largest and northernmost territory, created on April 1, 1999, through legislation that granted the Inuit people their own self-governing territory. Its establishment marked the first significant change to Canada's political map in 50 years, reshaping the country's northern governance structure.
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- Parliamentary system with consensus government
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- Province or territory of Canada.motto
- ()"Our land, our strength"""
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- Iqaluit
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- Inuit (Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun)EnglishFrench
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Nunavut is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government. The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador) was admitted in 1949.
Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada and most of the Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory makes it the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world, as well as North America's second-largest (after Greenland). Nunavut's capital and Canada's smallest capital by population, Iqaluit (formerly "Frobisher Bay"), on Baffin Island in the east, was chosen by a capital plebiscite in 1995. Other major communities include the regional centres of Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay.