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Yukon covers 482,443 km 2, of which 474,391 km 2 is land and 8,052 km 2 is water, making it the forty-first largest subnational entity in the world, and, among the fifty largest, the least populous. Yukon is bounded on the south by the 60th parallel of latitude. Its northern coast is on the Beaufort Sea. Its western boundary is 141° west ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Yukon. Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. Whitehorse is the territorial capital. The Territory was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" or "Big Stream" in Gwich'in.
The rocks of eastern Yukon, together with those in neighboring British Columbia and Northwest Territories formed beginning more than 1.7 billion years ago in the Proterozoic. The region was at the western edge of the proto-North American continent Laurentia and in the uplifted mountains of the North American Cordillera, preserves one of the ...
Yukon [a] is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.It is the most densely populated of the three territories, with an estimated population of 46,948 as of 2024, [3] though it has a smaller population than all provinces.
Yukon geography-related lists (1 C, 5 P) B. Borders of Yukon (5 P) E. Ecozones and ecoregions of Yukon (10 P) K. Kluane National Park and Reserve (27 P) L.
The Peel Watershed is primarily within the Boreal Taiga ecozone, with the lower lying parts in the north within the Taiga Plains ecozone. [5] The two ecozones of the PWPR are further divided into ecoregions: Peel River Plateau and Fort McPherson Plain in the Taiga Plains ecozone, and British/Richardson Mountains, North Ogilvie Mountains, Eagle Plains and Mackenzie Mountains in the Boreal Taiga ...
The Yukon River features as the setting for the 2015 National Geographic Channel series Yukon River Run. [47] The industrial metal band Lindemann wrote a song named "Yukon" on their first album Skills in Pills.
Yukon; Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. C. Cenozoic Yukon (3 C, 2 P) E. Ediacaran Yukon (1 P) I. Igneous petrology of ...