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Yellowknife. Yellowknife (/ ˈjɛloʊnaɪf /; Dogrib: Sǫǫ̀mbak’è) [12] is the capital, largest community, and the only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River.
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; French: Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.At a land area of approximately 1,127,711.92 km 2 (435,412.01 sq mi) and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. [3]
The Northwest Territories is a territory in Northern Canada, specifically in Northwestern Canada between Yukon Territory and Nunavut including part of Victoria Island, Melville Island, and other islands on the western Arctic Archipelago. [1] Originally a much wider territory enclosing most of central and northern Canada, the Northwest ...
Yellowknives. The Yellowknives, Yellow Knives, Copper Indians, Red Knives or T'atsaot'ine (Wíílíídeh dialect: Tetsǫ́t'ınę) are indigenous peoples of Canada, one of the five main groups of the First Nations Dene who live in the Northwest Territories. [1] The name, which is also the source for the later community of Yellowknife, derives ...
Hamlet [10] Yes South Slave [10] Region 5: 106 7.1% Fort Good Hope: Fort Hope, unknown Rádeyı̨lı̨kóé; rapids place Charter Community. K'asho Got'ine Charter Community [11] Yes Sahtu [11] Region 2: 516 0.2%
Fort Smith (Chipewyan: Thebacha "beside the rapids") is a town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. It is located in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories, on the Slave River and adjacent to the Alberta border along the 60th parallel north .
The Northwest Territories is the most populous of Canada's three territories with 41,070 residents as of 2021 and is the second-largest territory in land area at 1,127,712 km 2 (435,412 sq mi). [1] The Northwest Territories' 24 municipalities cover only 0.2% of the territory's land mass but are home to 96% of its population. [1] [2] [3]
Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a taiga ecoregion located in northern Canada, stretching from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to Hudson Bay in eastern Nunavut. The region supports conifer forests to its northern edge, where the territory grades into tundra. The open forest in this transition zone is characterized by widely ...