Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a territory in Northern Canada. 45,074 people live there as of 2025.[5] It is 1,171,918 square kilometers.
The capital of the Northwest Territories is Yellowknife. Yellowknife was the capital since 1967. The Northwest Territories have many geographical features, like the Great Bear Lake, the Mackenzie River and Nahanni River, which is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Northwest Territories entered the Canadian Confederation in 1870. The Hudson's Bay Company gave the land to the Dominion of Canada. The Northwest Territories have one person in the House of Commons and the Canadian Senate. A lot of parts of the Northwest Territories were given to other provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1999, the eastern part of the Northwest Territories became the territory of Nunavut.
Notes and references
- ↑ Given to Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company.
- ↑ Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada. "Place names - Territoires du Nord-Ouest". www4.rncan.gc.ca. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
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- ↑ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Land and freshwater area, by province and territory". February 1, 2005. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Population estimates, quarterly". Statistics Canada. March 19, 2025. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
- ↑ The terms Northwest Territorian(s) Hansard, Thursday, March 25, 2004 Archived March 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, and (informally) NWTer(s) Hansard, Monday, October 23, 2006 Archived March 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, occur in the official record of the territorial legislature Archived June 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. According to the Oxford Guide to Canadian English Usage (ISBN 978-0-19-541619-0; p. 335), there is no common term for a resident of Northwest Territories.
- ↑ "Official Languages Act (Northwest Territories" (PDF). Government of the Northwest Territories. 1998. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 14, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ↑ "Official Languages of the Northwest Territories". Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
- ↑ "Gross domestic product, expenditure-based, by province and territory (2017)". Statistics Canada. September 17, 2019. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
- ↑ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
Northwest Territories Media
Northwest Territories topographic location map
Köppen climate types in the Northwest Territories
Map of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Inuvialuit Nunangit
Members of the Coppermine expedition caught by a storm in Coronation Gulf, August 1821
Map of the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land, 1859
A proclamation concerning the formation of the North-West Territories, from recently transferred territories to the Canadian government
Sign for an eye clinic in Yellowknife with all 11 official territorial languages
Aerial view of the Diavik Diamond Mine in the North Slave Region
Nahanni National Park Reserve, one of several national parks and reserves in the Northwest Territories
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