Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a territory in Northern Canada. 45,950 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
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- ↑ 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.
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Northwest Territories Media
- Northwest Territories topographic location map.png
Northwest Territories topographic location map
- Northwest Territories Köppen.svg
Köppen climate types in the Northwest Territories
- NWT-YT Inuvialuit Settlement Locator.svg
Map of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Inuvialuit Nunangit
- Franklin's canoes in gale.jpg
Members of the Coppermine expedition caught by a storm in Coronation Gulf, August 1821
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Map of the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land, 1859
- Northwest Territories Proclamation.jpg
A proclamation concerning the formation of the North-West Territories, from recently transferred territories to the Canadian government
- Multilingual sign for eye clinic in Yellowknife, NT.jpg
Sign for an eye clinic in Yellowknife with all 11 official territorial languages
- Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada by Planet Labs.jpg
Aerial view of the Diavik Diamond Mine in the North Slave Region
- Nahanni River - Third Canyon.jpg
Nahanni National Park Reserve, one of several national parks and reserves in the Northwest Territories