Nunavik
Nunavik is the northernmost part of Northern Quebec. It is the homeland of the Inuit people of Quebec. For thousands of years, the Inuit have lived in this vast Arctic territory.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kuujjuaq and Inukjuak.
Kuujjuaq
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Kuujjuuaq is in the Nunavik region of Northern Quebec. It is the largest community in Nunavik, with a total population of 2,754. "Kuujjuaq" means "great river" in the Inuktitut language.
Inukjuak
Inukjuak is a northern village located on Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Innuksuak River in Nunavik, in the Nord-du-Québec region of northern Quebec, Canada.
Kuujjuarapik
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Kuujjuarapik and neighbouring Whapmagoostui are twin villages with a total of about 1800 people in Nunavik in the far north of Quebec. Kuujjuarapik sits at the mouth of the Grande-Baleine River on the coast of Hudson Bay.
Destinations to Discover
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Kangiqsujuaq
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Kangiqsujuaq is a small village of 750 in Nunavik, Quebec. There is nothing too special about this village, except that it is the closest point of civilization to Qajartalik in Qikertaaluk Island, home to a petroglyph site consisting of over 150 carvings of faces in soapstone.
Nunavik
- Type: region with 12,100 residents
- Description: Inuktitut region of Quebec, Canada, proposed for autonomy
- Also known as: “Nouveau-Québec”
- Location: Northern Quebec, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude of center
57° northLongitude of center
-64° or 64° westPopulation
12,100Wikidata ID
Q1074865
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nunavik” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nunavik”
- Arabic: “نونافيك”
- Azerbaijani: “Nunavik”
- Belarusian: “Нунавік”
- Breton: “Nunavik”
- Catalan: “Nunavik”
- Chinese: “努納維克”
- Chinese: “努那域”
- Czech: “Nunavik”
- Dimli (individual language): “Nunavik”
- Dutch: “Nunavik”
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “nunavik”
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “ᓄᓇᕕᒃ”
- Esperanto: “Nunaviko”
- Estonian: “Nunavik”
- Finnish: “Nunavik”
- Finnish: “Nunavikin alue”
- French: “Kativik”
- French: “Nouveau Québec”
- French: “Nouveau-Québec”
- French: “Nunavik”
- Galician: “Nunavik”
- German: “Nunavik”
- Greek: “Νουνάβικ”
- Greek: “Νούναβικ”
- Hebrew: “נונאוויק”
- Inuktitut: “ᓄᓇᕕᒃ”
- Italian: “Nunavik”
- Japanese: “ヌナビク”
- Korean: “누나빅”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nunavik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nunavik”
- Norwegian: “Nunavik”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nunavik”
- Polish: “Nunavik”
- Portuguese: “Nunavik”
- Russian: “Нунавик”
- Spanish: “Nunavik”
- Swedish: “Nunavik”
- Turkish: “Nunavik”
- Ukrainian: “Нунавік”
- Venetian: “Nunavik”
- Western Armenian: “Նունավիք”
- Western Frisian: “Nûnavik”
- Yue Chinese: “努那域”
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