Salluit
Sign in to saveSalluit (, "the thin ones") is the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, Canada, located on Sugluk Inlet close to the Hudson Strait and was formerly known as Sugluk. Its population was 1,483 in the Canada 2016 Census and the population centre had 1,075 people. It is not accessible by road, but by air through Salluit Airport.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Salluit
- Settlement.native_name
- ᓴᓪᓗᐃᑦ
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ike
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Northern village municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Village de Salluit (Québec).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Looking east, October 2008
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Quebec
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 197
- Settlement.coor_pinpoint
- 64, rue Aqqutituqaq
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nord-du-Québec
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- TE
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Kativik
- Settlement.established_title1
- Constituted
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Sallumiuq
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Kativik Regional Government
- Population
- 1685
- Area
- 14.70
- Elevation
- 227
- Official website
- www.nvsalluit.ca
- Image
- Village de Salluit (Québec).jpg
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- Commons category
- Salluit
- inception
- 1979-12-29
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Encyclopedic overview
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- {{anchor|Deception Bay, Quebec}} History
- Demographics
- Education
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- External links
Salluit (, "the thin ones") is the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, Canada, located on Sugluk Inlet close to the Hudson Strait and was formerly known as Sugluk. Its population was 1,483 in the Canada 2016 Census and the population centre had 1,075 people. It is not accessible by road, but by air through Salluit Airport.
Salluit means "The Thin Ones" in Inuktitut, referring to a time when local inhabitants were facing starvation as a result of a lack of wildlife.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salluit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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