Yukon

The Yukon is the westernmost of 's three . It is an area larger than Sweden, but with a population smaller than that of Sweden's 55th largest municipality.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Whitehorse and Tombstone Territorial Park.

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is the capital of the Yukon. It has spectacular scenery, and easy access to the natural splendor and recreational opportunities around it, such as paddling on the Yukon River and hiking, biking, or skiing its many trails.

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Rugged mountains that stretch out for kilometres on end in one of the Yukon's most isolated and untouched regions characterize .

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is a historical town of 2,270 people in Yukon. It invites visitors to celebrate its heritage as a late 19th-century gold rush town, with frontier buildings and boardwalks, saloons, and a vintage sternwheeler.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Kluane National Park and Ivvavik National Park.

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and Reserve is composed of two parts: a national park and a reserve in the southwest corner of Yukon. It is part of the Kluane-Wrangell-St.

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is a national park in Yukon, . It is one of the least-visited national parks in Canada, having only received 179 visitors in 2022–23.

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, in the Beaufort Sea, lies 5 km off the coast of Yukon in . It is Yukon's only offshore island. The island is home to Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, which makes up the entire 116 km2 of .

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is a national park in Yukon. It covers an area of 4,345 km². Vuntut is extremely remote and difficult to access. Fewer than 25 visitors reach the park each year.

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is a village of 500 people in Yukon. It is the home of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, a Northern Tutchone-speaking Aboriginal people.

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is a town of 800 people in southeastern Yukon, close to the border. is a common stop for those driving up from British Columbia.

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is a village in southwestern Yukon with a population of 613. It is a major administrative centre for the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.
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Yukon

Latitude of center
63.0001° or 63° 0′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
-136.0025° or 136° 0′ 9″ west
Population
33,900
Elevation
847 metres (2,779 feet)
Abbreviation
“YT”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305700707
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6185811
Wiki­data ID
Q2009
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yukon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yukon”
  • Albanian: “Yukon”
  • Amharic: “ዩካን”
  • Amharic: “ዩኮን”
  • Arabic: “يوكون”
  • Armenian: “Յուկոն”
  • Asturian: “Yukón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yukon”
  • Balinese: “Yukon”
  • Basque: “Yukon”
  • Bavarian: “Yukon”
  • Belarusian: “Тэрыторыя Юкан”
  • Belarusian: “Юкан”
  • Belarusian: “Юкон”
  • Bengali: “ইউকন”
  • Betawi: “Yukon”
  • Bosnian: “Yukon”
  • Breton: “Yukon”
  • Bulgarian: “Юкон”
  • Burmese: “ယူးကွန်းနယ်”
  • Catalan: “Yukon”
  • Cebuano: “Yukon (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Yukon”
  • Central Bikol: “Yukon”
  • Central Kurdish: “یووکان”
  • Chinese: “Yukon”
  • Chinese: “育空”
  • Chinese: “育空地区”
  • Chinese: “育空地區”
  • Choctaw: “Yukon”
  • Cornish: “Yukon”
  • Corsican: “Territoriu di u Yukon”
  • Corsican: “Yukon”
  • Croatian: “Yukon”
  • Czech: “Yukon”
  • Dagbani: “Yukon”
  • Danish: “Yukon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Yukon”
  • Dutch: “Yukon”
  • Esperanto: “Jukonio”
  • Esperanto: “Jukonteritorio”
  • Esperanto: “Teritorio Jukonio”
  • Esperanto: “YT”
  • Estonian: “Yukon”
  • Estonian: “Yukoni ala”
  • Faroese: “Yukon”
  • Finnish: “Yukon”
  • French: “CA-YT”
  • French: “Territoire du Yukon”
  • French: “YT”
  • French: “Yukon”
  • Galician: “Yukón”
  • Georgian: “იუკონი”
  • German: “CA-YT”
  • German: “Yukon-Territorium”
  • German: “Yukon”
  • German: “Yukonterritorium”
  • Greek: “Γιούκον”
  • Gujarati: “યુકોન”
  • Haitian: “Youkon”
  • Hausa: “Yukon”
  • Hebrew: “יוקון”
  • Hindi: “यूकॉन”
  • Hungarian: “Yukon”
  • Icelandic: “Júkon”
  • Icelandic: “Yukon”
  • Indonesian: “Yukon”
  • Inuktitut: “ᔫᑳᓐ”
  • Inupiaq: “Yukon”
  • Inupiaq: “Yuukan”
  • Irish: “Yukon”
  • Italian: “Territorio dello Yukon”
  • Italian: “Yukon”
  • Japanese: “ユーコン準州”
  • Javanese: “Yukon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Yukon”
  • Kannada: “ಯುಕಾನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Юкон”
  • Kazakh: “Юкон”
  • Kirghiz: “Юкон”
  • Korean: “유콘 준주”
  • Kurdish: “Îwkon”
  • Kurdish: “Yukon”
  • Ladino: “Yukon”
  • Latin: “Iuconus”
  • Latin: “Yukon”
  • Latvian: “Jukona”
  • Ligurian: “Yukon”
  • Literary Chinese: “育空地區”
  • Lithuanian: “Jukonas”
  • Lombard: “Yukon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Yukon”
  • Macedonian: “Јукон”
  • Malay: “Yukon”
  • Malayalam: “യൂക്കോൺ”
  • Manx: “Yukon”
  • Marathi: “युकॉन”
  • Mazanderani: “یوکان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yukon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yukon”
  • Minangkabau: “Yukon”
  • Mingrelian: “იუკონი”
  • Mongolian: “Юкон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yukon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yukon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yukon”
  • Norwegian: “Yukon”
  • Novial: “Yukon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yukon”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܩܘܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Geocon Landscipe”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Geocon”
  • Oromo: “Yukon”
  • Ossetian: “Юкон”
  • Pampanga: “Yukon”
  • Panjabi: “ਯੂਕੋਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Yukon”
  • Persian: “یوکان”
  • Piemontese: “Yukon”
  • Polish: “Jukon”
  • Portuguese: “Iucão”
  • Portuguese: “Território de Yukon”
  • Portuguese: “Território do Yukon”
  • Portuguese: “YT”
  • Portuguese: “Yukon”
  • Pushto: “Yukon”
  • Romanian: “Yukon”
  • Russia Buriat: “Юкон”
  • Russian: “Юкон (территория)”
  • Russian: “Юкон”
  • Samogitian: “Jukons”
  • Sardinian: “Yukon”
  • Scots: “Yukon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn an Iukon”
  • Serbian: “Јукон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yukon”
  • Sindhi: “يوڪون”
  • Sinhala: “යුකොන්, කැනඩාව”
  • Sinhala: “යුන්කොන්”
  • Slovak: “Yukon”
  • Slovenian: “Jukon”
  • Slovenian: “Jukonsko ozemlje”
  • Slovenian: “Yukon”
  • Somali: “Yukon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یوکان”
  • Spanish: “Yucón”
  • Spanish: “Yukón”
  • Swahili: “Yukon”
  • Swedish: “Yukon Territory”
  • Swedish: “Yukon”
  • Swedish: “Yukonterritoriet”
  • Tagalog: “Yukon”
  • Tajik: “Yukon”
  • Tamil: “யூக்கான்”
  • Tatar: “Yukon”
  • Tatar: “Юкон (территория)”
  • Tatar: “Юкон”
  • Telugu: “యుకాన్”
  • Thai: “ยูคอน”
  • Turkish: “Yukon”
  • Uighur: “Yukon Rayoni”
  • Ukrainian: “Юкон”
  • Urdu: “يوكون”
  • Uzbek: “Yukon”
  • Venetian: “Yukon”
  • Vietnamese: “Lãnh thổ Yukon”
  • Vietnamese: “Yukon”
  • Volapük: “Yukon”
  • Võro: “Yukon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yukon”
  • Welsh: “Yukon”
  • Western Frisian: “Yukon”
  • Western Panjabi: “يوكون”
  • Western Panjabi: “یکون”
  • Wu Chinese: “育空地区”
  • Yakut: “Юкон”
  • Yiddish: “יוקאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “育空地區”
  • “Jukons”
  • “Yukon”

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