Nunavut

Nunavut is a territory in which contains 's northernmost lands. With only 37,000 inhabitants, Nunavut covers a land area larger than , divided between mainland and an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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is the capital and largest settlement of the territory of Nunavut. It is on a southeastern inlet of . As of 2016, the population stood at just over 7,700 people.

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is a national park on the northeastern corner of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, . Since October 2004, the park has been on UNESCO's tentative list for its ecosystem.

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is a hamlet of about 1800 people on Victoria Island, in western Nunavut. It is the largest settlement on Victoria Island. is the largest stop for passenger and research vessels traversing the Arctic Ocean's Northwest Passage…

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Explore places such as Baffin Island and Queen Elizabeth Islands.

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is an island in Nunavut, . It's the world's fifth largest island. It is larger in area than Spain, but has a population of only 13,000 people. It lies to the west of , across the Baffin Bay.

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The in Nunavut comprise the northernmost populated region in . They include Ellesmere Island which is the world's tenth largest island.

is an administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. It consists of the southern and eastern parts of with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the , together with and the southern portion of .

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, is an active community of 2,800 people in mainland Nunavut. It is a government village and an air transport hub for travel between Nunavut and the centre and west of Canada.

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is a predominantly Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. is derived from the Inuktitut word arviq meaning "Bowhead whale".

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is a national park in Nunavut, Canada. It covers 20,885 km2 of tundra and coastal mudflats south of the Arctic Circle and the hamlet of , from 's towards the western Barrenlands and the source of Brown River.

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is a national park on Baffin Island in Nunavut, . As of Jan 2022, the park is on UNESCO's mixed tentative list along with the proposed Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area for its exceptional representation of the Arctic ecosystem.
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Nunavut

Latitude of center
70° north
Longitude of center
-90° or 90° west
Population
36,900
Elevation
153 metres (502 feet)
Abbreviation
“NU”
Abbreviation
“Nvt.”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305700700
Geo­Names ID
6091732
Wiki­data ID
Q2023
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nunavut” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nunavut”
  • Albanian: “Nunavut”
  • Amharic: “ኑናቩት”
  • Arabic: “نونافوت”
  • Armenian: “Նունավութ”
  • Armenian: “Նունավուտ”
  • Asturian: “Nunavut”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nunavut”
  • Balinese: “Nunavut”
  • Basque: “Nunavut”
  • Belarusian: “Нунавут”
  • Bengali: “নুনাভুট”
  • Bengali: “নুনাভুত”
  • Betawi: “Nunawut”
  • Bhojpuri: “नुनावुट”
  • Bosnian: “Nunavut”
  • Breton: “Nunavut”
  • Bulgarian: “Нунавут”
  • Catalan: “Nunavut”
  • Cebuano: “Nunavut”
  • Central Kurdish: “نوونڤووت”
  • Chinese: “努納武特”
  • Chinese: “努納武特地區”
  • Chinese: “努納福特”
  • Chinese: “努纳武特”
  • Cornish: “Nunavut”
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  • Dutch: “Nunavut”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نونافوت”
  • Emilian: “Nunavut”
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  • Galician: “Nunavut”
  • Georgian: “ნუნავუტი”
  • German: “Nunavut”
  • Greek: “Νούναβουτ”
  • Gujarati: “નુનાવત”
  • Haitian: “Nounavout”
  • Hausa: “Nunavut”
  • Hebrew: “נונאווט”
  • Hindi: “नुनावुत”
  • Hindi: “नूनावूत”
  • Hungarian: “Nunavut”
  • Icelandic: “Núnavút”
  • Ido: “Nunavut”
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  • Indonesian: “Nunavut”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓄᓇᕗᑦ”
  • Inupiaq: “Nunavut”
  • Irish: “Nunavut”
  • Italian: “Nunavut”
  • Japanese: “ヌナブト準州”
  • Javanese: “Nunavut”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nunavut”
  • Kannada: “ನುನಾವುಟ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Нунавут”
  • Kazakh: “Нунавут”
  • Kirghiz: “Нунавут”
  • Kirghiz: “Нунавуут”
  • Korean: “누나부트 준주”
  • Kurdish: “Nunavut”
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  • Latin: “Nunavut”
  • Latvian: “Nunavuta”
  • Ligurian: “Nunavut”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nunavut”
  • Literary Chinese: “努納武特”
  • Literary Chinese: “努納武特地區”
  • Lithuanian: “Nunavutas”
  • Lombard: “Nunavut”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nunavut”
  • Macedonian: “Нунавут”
  • Malay: “Nunavut”
  • Malayalam: “നുനാവട്”
  • Manx: “Nunavut”
  • Marathi: “नुनाव्हुत”
  • Mazanderani: “نوناووت”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nunavut”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nunavut”
  • Minangkabau: “Nunavut”
  • Mingrelian: “ნუნავუტი”
  • Mongolian: “Нунавут”
  • Navajo: “Náhookǫsjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nunavut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nunavut”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nunavut”
  • Norwegian: “Nunavut”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nunavut”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܘܢܐܒܘܛ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nanufut”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nunavut”
  • Oromo: “Nunavut”
  • Ossetian: “Нунавут”
  • Pampanga: “Nunavut”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੂਨਾਵੁਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Nunavut”
  • Persian: “نوناووت”
  • Piemontese: “Nunavut”
  • Polish: “Nunavut”
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  • Portuguese: “Nunavute”
  • Pushto: “Nunavut”
  • Romanian: “Nunavut”
  • Russia Buriat: “Нунавут”
  • Russian: “Нунавут”
  • Samogitian: “Nunavuts”
  • Sardinian: “Nunavut”
  • Scots: “Nunavut”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nunavut”
  • Serbian: “Нунавут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nunavut”
  • Silesian: “Nunavut”
  • Sindhi: “نوناوت”
  • Sinhala: “නනවුට්”
  • Sinhala: “නුනාවුට්, කැනඩාව”
  • Slovak: “Nunavut”
  • Slovenian: “Nunavut”
  • Somali: “Nunavut”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوناووت”
  • Spanish: “Nunavut”
  • Swahili: “Nunavut”
  • Swedish: “Nunavut”
  • Swiss German: “Nunavut”
  • Tagalog: “Nunavut”
  • Tajik: “Нунавут”
  • Tamil: “நுனாவுட்”
  • Tamil: “நூனவுட்”
  • Tatar: “Нунавут”
  • Telugu: “నునావుట్”
  • Thai: “นูนาวุต”
  • Turkish: “Nunavut”
  • Ukrainian: “Нунавут”
  • Urdu: “نناوت”
  • Uzbek: “Nunavut”
  • Venetian: “Nunavut”
  • Vietnamese: “Nunavut”
  • Vlaams: “Nunavut”
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  • Võro: “Nunavut”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nunavut”
  • Welsh: “Nunavut”
  • Western Frisian: “Nunavut”
  • Western Frisian: “Nûnavût”
  • Western Panjabi: “نناوت”
  • Wu Chinese: “努纳武特地区”
  • Yakut: “Нунавут”
  • Yue Chinese: “努那活”
  • Yue Chinese: “努那烏”
  • “ma Nunanu”
  • “Nunavut”
  • “नुनावुट”

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