Nunavut
Motto(s): ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᓴᙱᓂᕗᑦ Nunavut Sannginivut Notre terre, notre force
Coordinates:70°10′N 90°44′W / 70.167°N 90.733°W /70.167; -90.733 [ 1] Country Canada Confederation April 1, 1999 (13th) Capital Iqaluit Largest city Iqaluit Government
• Type Parliamentary system , withconsensus government • Commissioner Eva Aariak • Premier P.J. Akeeagok (consensus government )Legislature Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Federal representation Parliament of Canada House seats 1 of 338 (0.3%) Senate seats 1 of 105 (1%)Area (2021 – land, 2020 – water)
[ 2] [ 3] • Total 2,093,190 km2 (808,190 sq mi) • Land 1,836,993.78 km2 (709,267.26 sq mi) • Water 160,930 km2 (62,140 sq mi) 7.7% • Rank Ranked 1st 21% of Canada Population • Total 36,858[ 2] • Estimate (2025 Q1)
41,414[ 4] • Rank Ranked 13th • Density 0.02/km2 (0.05/sq mi) Demonym(s) NunavummiutNunavummiuq (sing. )[ 5] Official languages Inuit (Inuktitut andInuinnaqtun )[ 6] GDP
• Rank 12th • Total (2017) C$2.846 billion[ 7] • Per capita C$58,452 (6th ) HDI
• HDI (2021) 0.930[ 8] Very high (4th ) Time zones UTC−07:00 (MST ) • Summer (DST ) UTC−06:00 (MDT) UTC−06:00 (CST ) • Summer (DST ) UTC−05:00 (CDT) Southampton Island (Coral Harbour)UTC−05:00 (EST )UTC−04:00 (Eastern Time) • Summer (DST ) UTC−04:00 (EDT) Postal abbr. NU
Postal code prefix ISO 3166 code CA-NU Flower Purple saxifrage [ 9] Tree n/a Bird Rock ptarmigan [ 10] Rankings include allprovinces and territories
Nunavut is aterritory inCanada . It is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada. It was founded in 1999 when manyInuit living in theNorthwest Territories wanted to have an independentprovince and government. Its capital is namedIqaluit . It is in thenorth of Canada, and has a particularly coldclimate for much of the year. It has many native people (mainly Inuit).
The main form oftransportation is thesnowmobile . For the first week of being a separate unit, it was the Province of Nunavut, but after a week it was renamed Nunavut Territory.
A symbol of the territory is theEskimo Dog (qimmiq [ 11] dogs .[source?
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↑ "Nunavut" .Geographical Names Data Base Natural Resources Canada .↑2.0 2.1 "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories" .Statistics Canada . February 9, 2022.Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. RetrievedFebruary 9, 2022 .↑ "Nunavut" .CanadaFAQ.ca .Archived from the original on April 30, 2020. RetrievedApril 25, 2020 .↑ "Population estimates, quarterly" .Statistics Canada . March 19, 2025. RetrievedMarch 19, 2025 .↑ Nunavummiut , the plural demonym for residents of Nunavut, appears throughout theGovernment of Nunavut website Archived January 18, 2009, at theWayback Machine , proceedings of the Nunavut legislature, and elsewhere.Nunavut Housing Corporation Archived October 14, 2022, at theWayback Machine ,Discussion Paper Released to Engage Nunavummiut on Development of Suicide Prevention Strategy Archived May 18, 2022, at theWayback Machine . Alan Rayburn, previous head of the Canadian Permanent Committee of Geographical Names, opined that: "Nunavut is still too young to have acquired [agentilé Nunavutan may be an obvious choice." InNaming Canada: stories about Canadian place names 2001. (2nd ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (ISBN 978-0-8020-8293-0 ); p. 50.↑ "Consolidation of (S.Nu. 2008, c.10) (NIF) Official Languages Act" (PDF) ."Consolidation of Inuit Language Protection Act" (PDF) . Government of Nunavut. RetrievedAugust 5, 2021 .↑ "Gross domestic product, expenditure-based, provincial and territorial, annual (x 1,000,000)" . Statistics Canada. 2019-09-21.Archived from the original on April 13, 2023. RetrievedSeptember 21, 2019 .↑ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab" .globaldatalab.org .Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved2020-06-18 .↑ "The Official Flower of Nunavut: Purple Saxifrage" . Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. 2011.Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. RetrievedJuly 31, 2011 .↑ "The Official Bird of Nunavut: The Rock Ptarmigan" . Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. 2011. Archived fromthe original on May 8, 2014. RetrievedJuly 31, 2011 .↑ "Legislative assembly of Nunavut: The Canadian Inuit Dog (Canis Familiaris Borealis) - Official Animal of Nunavut" . Archived fromthe original on 2014-08-31. Retrieved2014-01-14 .
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