Yellowknife
Sign in to saveYellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
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Yellowknife is the capital and largest city in Canada's Northwest Territories, located on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake near the Arctic Circle. It sits in a remote northern region where the Yellowknife River meets Yellowknife Bay, making it the territorial center for government and community activity in this vast and sparsely populated part of Canada.
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- Locality
- Yellowknife
- Region
- Northwest Territories
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 20,340
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- 2023 wildfire
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- Former regional mines
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- Electricity
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- Water and sewage treatment
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- Primary and secondary
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Yellowknife is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after a local Dene tribe, who were known as the "Copper Indians" or "Yellowknife Indians", today incorporated as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. They traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. Modern Yellowknives members can be found in the city as well as in the adjoining, primarily Indigenous communities of Ndilǫ and Dettah.