NW Territories
North Slave Region
Yellowknife

Yellowknife

Yellowknife is the capital city of the , on the North Arm of Great Slave Lake, on Yellowknife Bay. Yellowknife is the main entry point for visitors to NWT.
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  • Type: City with 19,200 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of the Northwest Territories, Canada
  • Also known as: “Yellowknife, Northwest Territories”, “Yellowknife, NWT”, and “耶罗纳夫”
  • Postal code: X1A
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and Log School House.

Museum
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The is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives. Located in Yellowknife, , Canada, the PWNHC acquires and manages objects and archival materials that represent the cultures…

Historic building
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The first building used as a school in Yellowknife, , , is currently located on Franklin Avenue at the south end of New Town, the city's downtown section.

Heritage site
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, the original in Yellowknife, , Canada, is located on Back Bay, a section of Yellowknife Bay on .

Yellowknife

Latitude
62.4541° or 62° 27′ 15″ north
Longitude
-114.3774° or 114° 22′ 39″ west
Population
19,200
Elevation
252 metres (827 feet)
IATA airport code
YZF
United Nations Location Code
CA YZF
Open location code
95J7FJ3F+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2903625031
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6185377
Wiki­data ID
Q2061
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yellowknife” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yellowknife”
  • Albanian: “Yellowknife”
  • Amharic: “የሎናይፍ”
  • Arabic: “يلونايف”
  • Armenian: “Ելոունայֆ”
  • Asturian: “Yellowknife”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yellounayf”
  • Basque: “Yellowknife”
  • Belarusian: “Елаўнайф”
  • Bengali: “ইয়েলোনাইফ”
  • Bosnian: “Yellowknife”
  • Bulgarian: “Йелоунайф”
  • Catalan: “Yellowknife”
  • Cebuano: “Yellowknife”
  • Chinese: “Yellowknife”
  • Chinese: “耶洛奈夫”
  • Chinese: “黃刀”
  • Chinese: “黃刀鎮”
  • Chinese: “黄刀镇”
  • Croatian: “Yellowknife, Sjeverozapadni teritoriji”
  • Croatian: “Yellowknife”
  • Czech: “Yellowknife”
  • Danish: “Yellowknife”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Yellowknife”
  • Dutch: “Yellowknife”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “يلونايف”
  • Esperanto: “Flavtranĉilo”
  • Esperanto: “Jelonajfo”
  • Esperanto: “Yellowknife”
  • Estonian: “Yellowknife”
  • Faroese: “Yellowknife”
  • Finnish: “Yellowknife”
  • French: “Yellowknife, Territoires du Nord-Ouest”
  • French: “Yellowknife”
  • Galician: “Yellowknife, Canadá”
  • Georgian: “იელოუნაიფი”
  • German: “Yellowknife”
  • Greek: “Γελοουνάιφ”
  • Greek: “Γέλοουναϊφ”
  • Gujarati: “યલોનાઈફ”
  • Hebrew: “ילונייף”
  • Hindi: “येलोनाइफ़”
  • Hungarian: “Yellowknife”
  • Icelandic: “Yellowknife”
  • Indonesian: “Yellowknife”
  • Irish: “Yellowknife”
  • Italian: “Yellowknife”
  • Japanese: “イエローナイフ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Yellowknife”
  • Kannada: “ಯೆಲ್ಲೊನೈಫ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Йеллоунайф”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Канаданы Шимал-Кюнбатыш территорияларыны ара шахары”
  • Korean: “옐로나이프”
  • Latin: “Cultellus Flavus”
  • Latin: “Yellowknife”
  • Latvian: “Jelounaifa”
  • Ligurian: “Yellowknife”
  • Lithuanian: “Jelounaifas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yellowknife”
  • Macedonian: “Јелоунајф”
  • Malay: “Yellowknife”
  • Malayalam: “യെല്ലോനൈഫ്”
  • Marathi: “यलोनाइफ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yellowknife”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yellowknife”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yellowknife”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yellowknife”
  • Norwegian: “Yellowknife”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yellowknife”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Geoluseax”
  • Ossetian: “Йеллоунайф”
  • Panjabi: “ਯੈਲੋਨਾਈਫ਼”
  • Persian: “یلونایف”
  • Polish: “Yellowknife”
  • Portuguese: “Yellowknife, Territórios do Noroeste”
  • Portuguese: “Yellowknife”
  • Romanian: “Yellowknife, North West Territories”
  • Romanian: “Yellowknife”
  • Russian: “Йеллоунайф”
  • Sardinian: “Yellowknife”
  • Scots: “Yellowknife”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Yellowknife”
  • Serbian: “Јелоунајф”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yellowknife, Kanada”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yellowknife”
  • Silesian: “Yellowknife”
  • Sinhala: “යෙලොනයිෆ්”
  • Slovak: “Yellowknife”
  • Slovenian: “Yellowknife”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یئلونایف”
  • Spanish: “Yellowknife (Territorios del Noroeste)”
  • Spanish: “Yellowknife”
  • Swahili: “Yellowknife”
  • Swedish: “Yellowknife”
  • Tagalog: “Yellowknife”
  • Tamil: “யெலோனைஃப்”
  • Tatar: “Елоунайф”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్లొ నైఫ్”
  • Thai: “เยลโลว์ไนฟ์”
  • Turkish: “Yellowknife”
  • Ukrainian: “Єлловнайф”
  • Ukrainian: “Єллоунайф”
  • Urdu: “یلوکنیفے”
  • Vietnamese: “Yellowknife, Các lãnh thổ Tây Bắc”
  • Vietnamese: “Yellowknife”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yellowknife”
  • Western Armenian: “Ելոնայֆ”
  • Western Frisian: “Yellowknife”
  • Wu Chinese: “耶洛奈夫”
  • Yakut: “Йэллоунайф”
  • Yue Chinese: “黃刀”
  • “Yellowknife”

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