Northern Canada
Nunavut
Baffin Island

Iqaluit

Iqaluit is the capital and largest settlement of the territory of . It is on a southeastern inlet of . As of 2016, the population stood at just over 7,700 people.
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  • Type: Town with 7,740 residents
  • Description: capital of the territory of Nunavut, Canada
  • Also known as: “Iqaluit, NU” and “Iqaluit, Nunavut”
  • Historically known as: “Crystal Two” and “Frobisher Bay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Iqaluit Airport and Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum.

Aerodrome
Photo: US Mission Canada, CC BY 2.0.
is an airport in Iqaluit, , Canada. It hosts scheduled passenger service from , , and on carriers such as Canadian North, and from smaller communities throughout eastern Nunavut.

Museum
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The is a museum of history and Inuit culture, located in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The museum was founded in 1969 by two employees of Canada's Department of Indian Affairs.

Prison
Photo: OhanaUnited, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a minimum to maximum security correctional facility in Iqaluit, , Canada. It is the largest correctional facility in the territory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Apex.

Hamlet
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small community outside Iqaluit located on in , Canada. It is about 5 km southeast of Iqaluit on a small peninsula separating Koojesse Inlet from Tarr Inlet. is situated 4½ km southeast of Iqaluit.

Iqaluit

Latitude
63.7493° or 63° 44′ 57″ north
Longitude
-68.5214° or 68° 31′ 17″ west
Population
7,740
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
YFB
United Nations Location Code
CA IQL
Open location code
97MHPFXH+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 96223684
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5983720
Wiki­data ID
Q2030
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Iqaluit” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Iqaluit”
  • Albanian: “Iqaluit”
  • Arabic: “إقالويت”
  • Arabic: “إيكالويت”
  • Armenian: “Իքալուիթ”
  • Asturian: “Iqaluit”
  • Basque: “Iqaluit”
  • Belarusian: “Ікалуіт”
  • Bengali: “ইক্যালুইট”
  • Bosnian: “Iqaluit”
  • Bulgarian: “Икалуит”
  • Catalan: “Iqaluit”
  • Cebuano: “Iqaluit”
  • Chinese: “Iqaluit”
  • Chinese: “伊卡卢伊特”
  • Chinese: “伊魁特”
  • Cree: “ᐃᑲᓗᐃᑦ”
  • Croatian: “Iqaluit”
  • Czech: “Iqaluit”
  • Dagbani: “Iqaluit”
  • Danish: “Iqaluit”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Iqaluit”
  • Dutch: “Iqaluit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايكالويت”
  • Esperanto: “Ikaluito”
  • Estonian: “Iqaluit”
  • Faroese: “Iqaluit”
  • Finnish: “Iqaluit”
  • French: “Iqaluit”
  • Galician: “Iqaluit”
  • Georgian: “იკალუიტი”
  • German: “Iqaluit”
  • Greek: “Ικαλούιτ”
  • Greek: “Ικάλουιτ”
  • Gujarati: “ઈકાલ્યુટ”
  • Hebrew: “איקאלואיט”
  • Hindi: “इकलौत”
  • Hungarian: “Iqaluit”
  • Icelandic: “Iqaluit”
  • Indonesian: “Iqaluit”
  • Interlingua: “Iqaluit”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ”
  • Inupiaq: “Iqaluit”
  • Irish: “Iqaluit”
  • Italian: “Iqaluit”
  • Japanese: “イカルイト”
  • Japanese: “フロビッシャー・ベイ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Iqaluit”
  • Kannada: “ಇಕ್ವಾಲ್ಯುಯಿಟ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Икалуит”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Икъалуит”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Икъалуйит”
  • Komi: “Икалуит”
  • Korean: “이칼루이트”
  • Latin: “Iqaluit”
  • Latvian: “Ikaluita”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Iqaluit”
  • Lithuanian: “Ikaluitas”
  • Macedonian: “Икалуит”
  • Malay: “Iqaluit”
  • Malayalam: “ഇക്വാല്യൂട്ട്”
  • Manx: “Iqaluit”
  • Marathi: “इक्वाल्युईत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iqaluit”
  • Nauru: “Iqaluit”
  • Northern Frisian: “Iqaluit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Frobisher Bay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iqaluit”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iqaluit”
  • Norwegian: “Iqaluit”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Iqaluit”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Icælūet”
  • Ossetian: “Икалуит”
  • Papiamento: “Iqaluit”
  • Persian: “ایقالویت”
  • Persian: “ایکالویت”
  • Polish: “Iqaluit”
  • Portuguese: “Iqaluit”
  • Romanian: “Iqaluit”
  • Russian: “Икалуит”
  • Sardinian: “Iqaluit”
  • Scots: “Iqaluit”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Iqaluit”
  • Serbian: “Икалуит”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Iqaluit”
  • Sinhala: “ඉකාලුයිට්”
  • Slovak: “Iqaluit”
  • Slovenian: “Iqaluit”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایکالویت”
  • Spanish: “Iqaluit (Nunavut)”
  • Spanish: “Iqaluit”
  • Swahili: “Iqaluit”
  • Swedish: “Iqaluit”
  • Tamil: “இக்காலுயிட்”
  • Tatar: “Икалуит”
  • Telugu: “ఇక్ లౌత్”
  • Thai: “อีกาลูอิต”
  • Thai: “อีคาลูอิต”
  • Turkish: “Iqaluit”
  • Ukrainian: “Ікалуїт”
  • Urdu: “اکالوئٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Iqaluit, Nunavut”
  • Vietnamese: “Iqaluit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iqaluit”
  • Welsh: “Iqaluit”
  • Western Armenian: “Իքալուիթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Iqaluit”
  • Western Panjabi: “اکالوئٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊卡卢伊特”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊魁特”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Iqaluit”. Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.