Yukon
The Yukon is the westernmost of Canada's three northern territories. It is an area larger than Sweden, but with a population smaller than that of Sweden's 55th largest municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Whitehorse and Tombstone Territorial Park.
Whitehorse
Tombstone Territorial Park
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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 Tombstone Territorial Park.
Dawson City
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kluane National Park and Ivvavik National Park.
Kluane National Park
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Kluane National Park 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.
Ivvavik National Park
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Ivvavik National Park is a national park in Yukon, Canada. It is one of the least-visited national parks in Canada, having only received 179 visitors in 2022–23.
Herschel Island
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Herschel Island, in the Beaufort Sea, lies 5 km off the coast of Yukon in Canada. It is Yukon's only offshore island. The island is home to Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, which makes up the entire 116 km2 of Herschel Island.
Vuntut National Park
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Vuntut National Park 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.
Carmacks
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Carmacks 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.
Watson Lake
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Watson Lake is a town of 800 people in southeastern Yukon, close to the British Columbia border. Watson Lake is a common stop for those driving up from British Columbia.
Haines Junction
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Haines Junction is a village in southwestern Yukon with a population of 613. It is a major administrative centre for the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.
Photo: Pierre Markuse, CC BY 2.0.
Yukon
- Type: State with 33,900 residents
- Description: territory of Canada
- Also known as: “CA-YT”, “Territory of the Yukon”, “The Klondike”, “the Yukon”, “Y.T.”, “YT”, and “Yukon Territory”
- Neighbors: Alaska, British Columbia, and Northwest Territories
- Categories: territory of Canada, census geographic unit of Canada, and locality
- Location: Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
63.0001° or 63° 0′ 1″ northLongitude of center
-136.0025° or 136° 0′ 9″ westPopulation
33,900Elevation
847 metres (2,779 feet)Abbreviation
“YT”OpenStreetMap ID
node 305700707OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
6185811Wikidata 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “יוקון”
- Hindi: “युकॉन प्रांत”
- 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”
- Kalaallisut: “Yukon”
- Kannada: “ಯುಕಾನ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Юкон”
- Kazakh: “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”
- Luxembourgish: “Yukon”
- Macedonian: “Јукон”
- Malay: “Yukon”
- Malayalam: “യൂക്കോൺ”
- Manx: “Yukon”
- Marathi: “युकॉन”
- Mazanderani: “یوکان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Yukon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “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”
- 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”
- 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”
- South Azerbaijani: “یوکان”
- Spanish: “Yucón”
- Spanish: “Yukón”
- Swahili: “Yukon”
- Swedish: “Yukon Territory”
- Swedish: “Yukon”
- Swedish: “Yukonterritoriet”
- Tagalog: “Yukon”
- Tamil: “யூக்கான்”
- Tatar: “Юкон (территория)”
- Tatar: “Юкон”
- Telugu: “యుకాన్”
- Thai: “ยูคอน”
- Turkish: “Yukon”
- Uighur: “Yukon Rayoni”
- Ukrainian: “Юкон”
- Urdu: “يوكون”
- Uzbek: “Yukon”
- Venetian: “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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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 “Yukon”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.