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href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%B5%E1%88%9C%E1%8A%95-%E1%88%9D%E1%8B%95%E1%88%AB%E1%89%A5_%E1%8C%8D%E1%8B%9B%E1%89%B6%E1%89%BD" title="ስሜን-ምዕራብ ግዛቶች – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ስሜን-ምዕራብ ግዛቶች" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%C3%BEwest_Landscipas" title="Norþwest Landscipas – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Norþwest Landscipas" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="الأقاليم الشمالية الغربية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="الأقاليم الشمالية الغربية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arc mw-list-item"><a href="https://arc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DC%90%DC%98%DC%9A%DC%95%DC%A2%DC%90_%DC%93%DC%AA%DC%92%DC%9D%DC%9D%DC%90-%DC%A1%DC%A5%DC%AA%DC%92%DC%9D%DC%90" title="ܐܘܚܕܢܐ ܓܪܒܝܝܐ-ܡܥܪܒܝܐ – Aramaic" lang="arc" hreflang="arc" data-title="ܐܘܚܕܢܐ ܓܪܒܝܝܐ-ܡܥܪܒܝܐ" data-language-autonym="ܐܪܡܝܐ" data-language-local-name="Aramaic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ܐܪܡܝܐ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_del_Noroeste" title="Territorios del Noroeste – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Territorios del Noroeste" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eimal-Q%C9%99rb_%C9%99razil%C9%99ri" title="Şimal-Qərb əraziləri – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Şimal-Qərb əraziləri" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="شمالی‌غرب اراضیلاری – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="شمالی‌غرب اراضیلاری" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawengkon_Kal%C3%A9r_Kauh" title="Wawengkon Kalér Kauh – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Wawengkon Kalér Kauh" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A5_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%9E%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B9" title="উত্তরপশ্চিম অধীনস্থ অঞ্চলসমূহ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="উত্তরপশ্চিম অধীনস্থ অঞ্চলসমূহ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai-pak_L%C3%A9ng-th%C3%B3%CD%98" title="Sai-pak Léng-thó͘ – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sai-pak Léng-thó͘" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F_%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96" title="Паўночна-Заходнія тэрыторыі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Паўночна-Заходнія тэрыторыі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%9E%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F_%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96" title="Паўночна-Заходнія тэрыторыі – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Паўночна-Заходнія тэрыторыі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Северозападни територии – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Северозападни територии" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjeverozapadne_teritorije" title="Sjeverozapadne teritorije – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Sjeverozapadne teritorije" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiriado%C3%B9_ar_Gwalarn" title="Tiriadoù ar Gwalarn – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Tiriadoù ar Gwalarn" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D1%8E%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B3_%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%85%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Баруун Хойто нютаг дэбисхэр – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Баруун Хойто нютаг дэбисхэр" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoris_del_Nord-oest" title="Territoris del Nord-oest – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Territoris del Nord-oest" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severoz%C3%A1padn%C3%AD_teritoria" title="Severozápadní teritoria – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Severozápadní teritoria" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiriogaethau%27r_Gogledd-orllewin" title="Tiriogaethau'r Gogledd-orllewin – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Tiriogaethau'r Gogledd-orllewin" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordwest-Territorien" title="Nordwest-Territorien – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Nordwest-Territorien" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loodealad" title="Loodealad – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Loodealad" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B4%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%95%CE%B4%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B7" title="Βορειοδυτικά Εδάφη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βορειοδυτικά Εδάφη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_del_Noroeste" title="Territorios del Noroeste – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Territorios del Noroeste" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordokcidentaj_Teritorioj" title="Nordokcidentaj Teritorioj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Nordokcidentaj Teritorioj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipar-mendebaldeko_Lurraldeak" title="Ipar-mendebaldeko Lurraldeak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ipar-mendebaldeko Lurraldeak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="قلمروهای شمال غربی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="قلمروهای شمال غربی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoires_du_Nord-Ouest" title="Territoires du Nord-Ouest – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Territoires du Nord-Ouest" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noardwestlike_Territoaria" title="Noardwestlike Territoaria – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Noardwestlike Territoaria" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%ADocha_an_Iarthuaiscirt" title="Críocha an Iarthuaiscirt – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Críocha an Iarthuaiscirt" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallooyn_yn_Eear_Hwoaie" title="Thallooyn yn Eear Hwoaie – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Thallooyn yn Eear Hwoaie" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roinnean_an_Iar_Thuath" title="Roinnean an Iar Thuath – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Roinnean an Iar Thuath" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_do_Noroeste" title="Territorios do Noroeste – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Territorios do Noroeste" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%85%B8%EC%8A%A4%EC%9B%A8%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8_%EC%A4%80%EC%A3%BC" title="노스웨스트 준주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="노스웨스트 준주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%87%D5%B4%D5%BF%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AE%D6%84%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Հյուսիսարևմտյան տարածքներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հյուսիսարևմտյան տարածքներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC" title="नॉर्थवेस्ट टेरीटरीज़ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="नॉर्थवेस्ट टेरीटरीज़" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjeverozapadni_teritoriji" title="Sjeverozapadni teritoriji – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sjeverozapadni teritoriji" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_Barat_Laut" title="Wilayah Barat Laut – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wilayah Barat Laut" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-iu mw-list-item"><a href="https://iu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%93%84%E1%93%87%E1%91%A6%E1%93%AF%E1%90%8A%E1%96%85" title="ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ – Inuktitut" lang="iu" hreflang="iu" data-title="ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ" data-language-autonym="ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut" data-language-local-name="Inuktitut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ / inuktitut</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%C3%A6%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82-%D0%9D%D1%8B%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%8B%D0%BB%C3%A6%D0%BD_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%C3%A6" title="Цæгат-Ныгуылæн территоритæ – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Цæгат-Ныгуылæн территоритæ" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%C3%B0vesturh%C3%A9ru%C3%B0in" title="Norðvesturhéruðin – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Norðvesturhéruðin" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territori_del_Nord-Ovest" title="Territori del Nord-Ovest – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Territori del Nord-Ovest" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA" title="הטריטוריות הצפון-מערביות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הטריטוריות הצפון-מערביות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A9%E1%83%A0%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D-%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="ჩრდილო-დასავლეთი ტერიტორიები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჩრდილო-დასავლეთი ტერიტორიები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D2%AF%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BA-%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%81_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Солтүстік-Батыс территориялары – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Солтүстік-Батыс территориялары" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiredhow_an_North-West" title="Tiredhow an North-West – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Tiredhow an North-West" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorios_del_Noroeste" title="Territorios del Noroeste – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Territorios del Noroeste" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladino</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoria_septentrio-occidentalia_(Canada)" title="Territoria septentrio-occidentalia (Canada) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Territoria septentrio-occidentalia (Canada)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zieme%C4%BCrietumu_Teritorijas" title="Ziemeļrietumu Teritorijas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ziemeļrietumu Teritorijas" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordwest-Territoiren" title="Nordwest-Territoiren – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Nordwest-Territoiren" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iaur%C4%97s_Vakar%C5%B3_teritorijos" title="Šiaurės Vakarų teritorijos – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Šiaurės Vakarų teritorijos" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terit%C3%B6i_do_N%C3%B2rd-Ovest" title="Teritöi do Nòrd-Ovest – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Teritöi do Nòrd-Ovest" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89szaknyugati_ter%C3%BCletek" title="Északnyugati területek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Északnyugati területek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Северозападни Територии – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Северозападни Територии" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="നോർത്ത്‍വെസ്റ്റ് ടെറിറ്ററീസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="നോർത്ത്‍വെസ്റ്റ് ടെറിറ്ററീസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C" title="नॉर्थवेस्ट टेरिटोरीज – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="नॉर्थवेस्ट टेरिटोरीज" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%94-%E1%83%91%E1%83%9F%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="ოორუე-ბჟადალი ტერიტორიეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ოორუე-ბჟადალი ტერიტორიეფი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%87" title="الاقاليم الشماليه الغربيه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الاقاليم الشماليه الغربيه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%E2%80%8C%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86" title="شمال‌غرب سامون – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="شمال‌غرب سامون" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_Barat_Laut" title="Wilayah Barat Laut – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wilayah Barat Laut" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%83%CC%A4-b%C3%A1e%CC%A4k_Li%C4%81ng-t%C5%AB_(G%C4%83-n%C4%81-d%C3%A2i)" title="Să̤-báe̤k Liāng-tū (Gă-nā-dâi) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Să̤-báe̤k Liāng-tū (Gă-nā-dâi)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B4_%D0%9D%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B3_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B3%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Баруун Хойд Нутаг Дэвсгэр – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Баруун Хойд Нутаг Дэвсгэр" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E6%BA%96%E5%B7%9E" title="ノースウエスト準州 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ノースウエスト準州" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuurdwaast_Teritoorien" title="Nuurdwaast Teritoorien – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Nuurdwaast Teritoorien" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordvestterritoriene" title="Nordvestterritoriene – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Nordvestterritoriene" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordvestterritoria" title="Nordvestterritoria – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Nordvestterritoria" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territ%C3%B2ris_del_N%C3%B2rd_O%C3%A8st" title="Territòris del Nòrd Oèst – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Territòris del Nòrd Oèst" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimoli-G%CA%BBarbiy_hududlar" title="Shimoli-Gʻarbiy hududlar – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Shimoli-Gʻarbiy hududlar" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%89%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%B0-%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%9B%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%96%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%B0" title="ਉੱਤਰ-ਪੱਛਮੀ ਰਾਜਖੇਤਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਉੱਤਰ-ਪੱਛਮੀ ਰਾਜਖੇਤਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8F%D8%AA%D9%84%DB%92_%D9%84%DB%81%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%92_%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%DB%92%D8%8C_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%88%D8%A7" title="اُتلے لہندے علاقے، کینیڈا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="اُتلے لہندے علاقے، کینیڈا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terit%C3%B2ri_d%C3%ABl_N%C3%B2rd-%C3%92vest" title="Teritòri dël Nòrd-Òvest – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Teritòri dël Nòrd-Òvest" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terytoria_P%C3%B3%C5%82nocno-Zachodnie" title="Terytoria Północno-Zachodnie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Terytoria Północno-Zachodnie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territ%C3%B3rios_do_Noroeste" title="Territórios do Noroeste – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Territórios do Noroeste" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teritoriile_de_Nord-Vest" title="Teritoriile de Nord-Vest – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Teritoriile de Nord-Vest" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE-%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Северо-Западные территории – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Северо-Западные территории" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territ%C3%B2rios_de_su_Norti-Uestu" title="Territòrios de su Norti-Uestu – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Territòrios de su Norti-Uestu" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwast_Territories" title="Northwast Territories – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Northwast Territories" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territoret_Veri-Per%C3%ABndimore" title="Territoret Veri-Perëndimore – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Territoret Veri-Perëndimore" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BA%E0%B6%B9_%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9C_%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%81,_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80" title="වයඹ දිග ප්‍රදේශ, කැනඩාව – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="වයඹ දිග ප්‍රදේශ, කැනඩාව" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severoz%C3%A1padn%C3%A9_terit%C3%B3ri%C3%A1" title="Severozápadné teritóriá – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Severozápadné teritóriá" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severozahodna_ozemlja" title="Severozahodna ozemlja – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Severozahodna ozemlja" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%86%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AE%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%95%D9%86%DB%95%D8%AF%D8%A7" title="ناوچەکانی باکووری خۆراوای کەنەدا – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ناوچەکانی باکووری خۆراوای کەنەدا" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5" title="Северозападне Територије – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Северозападне Територије" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjeverozapadne_teritorije" title="Sjeverozapadne teritorije – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Sjeverozapadne teritorije" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luoteisterritoriot" title="Luoteisterritoriot – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Luoteisterritoriot" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Northwest Territories" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D" title="வடமேற்கு நிலப்பகுதிகள் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="வடமேற்கு நிலப்பகுதிகள்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt 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class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Territory of Canada</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the contemporary Canadian territory. For its predecessor, see <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a>. For the former U.S. territory, see <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territory" title="Northwest Territory">Northwest Territory</a>. 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font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">Territory</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Northwest Territories"><img alt="Flag of Northwest Territories" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg/125px-Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg/188px-Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg/250px-Flag_of_the_Northwest_Territories.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Northwest_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of Northwest Territories">Flag</a></div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Northwest Territories"><img alt="Coat of arms of Northwest Territories" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg/44px-Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg/66px-Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg/88px-Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="283" data-file-height="545" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link"><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Northwest_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Coat of arms of Northwest Territories">Coat of arms</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"> <div class="" style="width:300px"><div style="position: relative; width:300px;"> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 7.9%; top: 59.4%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">BC</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 18.4%; top: 62.2%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">AB</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 27.8%; top: 67%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">SK</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 37.6%; top: 68%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">MB</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 50%; top: 71.9%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">ON</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 68.6%; top: 68%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">QC</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 79.6%; top: 76%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">NB</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 83.9%; top: 70.8%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">PE</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 86.8%; top: 77%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">NS</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 90.4%; top: 62.7%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="Newfoundland and Labrador">NL</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 8%; top: 32.5%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">YT</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 21.4%; top: 40.2%; padding: 0;"><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">NT</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 39.3%; top: 42.9%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">NU</a></b></div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Canadian Provinces and Territories"><img alt="Canadian Provinces and Territories" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg/300px-Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg/450px-Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg/600px-Northwest_Territories_in_Canada_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1114" data-file-height="942" /></a></span></div></div> </div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Northwest_Territories&params=67_N_121_W_type:adm1st_scale:30000000_region:CA-NT"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">67°N</span> <span class="longitude">121°W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">67°N 121°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">67; -121</span></span></span></a></span><sup id="cite_ref-CGNDB_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CGNDB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Before confederation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Arctic_Territories" title="British Arctic Territories">British Arctic Territories</a>, <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Confederation" title="Canadian Confederation">Confederation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">July 15, 1870<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (5th, with <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital<br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(and largest city)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest metro</th><td class="infobox-data">Yellowknife</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">Parliamentary system</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Consensus_government_in_Canada" title="Consensus government in Canada">consensus government</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <span class="nowrap">Commissioner</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Kisoun" title="Gerald Kisoun">Gerald Kisoun</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Premier</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/R._J._Simpson" class="mw-redirect" title="R. J. Simpson">R. J. Simpson</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Legislature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories">Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Federal representation</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Canada" title="Parliament of Canada">Parliament of Canada</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada" title="House of Commons of Canada">House seats</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1 of 338 (0.3%)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Senate seats</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Northwest_Territories_senators" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Northwest Territories senators">1 of 105</a> (1%)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-area_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-area-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,346,106 km<sup>2</sup> (519,734 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">1,183,085 km<sup>2</sup> (456,792 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">163,021 km<sup>2</sup> (62,943 sq mi)  12.1%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">3rd</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> </th><td class="infobox-data">13.5% of Canada</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2021_Canadian_census" title="2021 Canadian census">2021</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">41,070<sup id="cite_ref-StatCan2021_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StatCan2021-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(Q4 2024)</div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">44,936<sup id="cite_ref-quater_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quater-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">11th</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">0.03/km<sup>2</sup> (0.08/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonyms</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Northwest Territorian<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Canadian_French" title="Canadian French">FR</a>: <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Franco-Ténois(e)</i></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chipewyan_language" title="Chipewyan language">Chipewyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cree_language" title="Cree language">Cree</a></li> <li>English</li> <li>French</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwich%E2%80%99in_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Gwich’in language">Gwich’in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuinnaqtun" title="Inuinnaqtun">Inuinnaqtun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuktitut" title="Inuktitut">Inuktitut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvialuktun" title="Inuvialuktun">Inuvialuktun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavey_language" title="Slavey language">North Slavey</a></li> <li>South Slavey</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogrib_language" title="Dogrib language">Tłı̨chǫ</a></li></ul> </div><sup id="cite_ref-lang1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lang2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">11th</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Total (2017)</th><td class="infobox-data">C$4.856 billion<sup id="cite_ref-GDP2016_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GDP2016-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Per capita</th><td class="infobox-data">C$108,065 (1st)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • HDI (2021)</th><td class="infobox-data">0.930<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—<span style="color:#090">Very high</span> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of Canadian provinces and territories by Human Development Index">4th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_in_Canada" title="Time in Canada">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9207:00" title="UTC−07:00">UTC−07:00</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9206:00" title="UTC−06:00">UTC−06:00</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Canadian_postal_abbreviations_for_provinces_and_territories" title="Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces and territories">Canadian postal abbr.</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">NT</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Postal code prefix</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code"><a href="/wiki/List_of_X_postal_codes_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="List of X postal codes of Canada">X0, X1 (Yellowknife)</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:CA" title="ISO 3166-2:CA">CA-NT</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Flower</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dryas_octopetala" title="Dryas octopetala">Mountain avens</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Tree</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Larix_laricina" title="Larix laricina">Tamarack larch</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bird</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gyrfalcon" title="Gyrfalcon">Gyrfalcon</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below">Rankings include all <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">provinces and territories</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Northwest Territories</b><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a federal <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">territory of Canada</a>. At a land area of approximately 1,127,711.92 km<sup>2</sup> (435,412.01 sq mi) and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada#Territories" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">the three territories</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Canada" title="Northern Canada">Northern Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-StatCan2021_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StatCan2021-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its estimated population as of the second quarter of 2024 is 44,936.<sup id="cite_ref-quater_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quater-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a> is the capital, most populous community, and the only city in the territory; its population was 20,340 as of the 2021 census. It became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the <a href="/wiki/Carrothers_Commission" title="Carrothers Commission">Carrothers Commission</a>. </p><p>The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a>, entered the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Confederation" title="Canadian Confederation">Canadian Confederation</a> on July 15, 1870. At first, it was named the North-West Territories. The name was changed to the present Northwest Territories in 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 1870, the territory has been divided four times to create new provinces and territories or enlarge existing ones. Its current borders date from April 1, 1999, when the territory's size was decreased again by the creation of a new territory of <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a> to the east, through the <i><a href="/wiki/Nunavut_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Nunavut Act">Nunavut Act</a></i> and the <a href="/wiki/Nunavut_Land_Claims_Agreement" title="Nunavut Land Claims Agreement">Nunavut Land Claims Agreement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-act_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-act-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-claims_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-claims-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While Nunavut is mostly <a href="/wiki/Arctic" title="Arctic">Arctic</a> <a href="/wiki/Tundra" title="Tundra">tundra</a>, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is both <a href="/wiki/Taiga" title="Taiga">boreal forest (taiga)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tundra" title="Tundra">tundra</a>, and its most northern regions form part of the <a href="/wiki/Arctic_Archipelago" title="Arctic Archipelago">Arctic Archipelago</a>. </p><p>The Northwest Territories has the most interprovincial and inter-territorial land borders among all provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered by the territories of <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a> to the east and <a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">Yukon</a> to the west, and by the provinces of <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a> to the south; it also touches <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a> to the southeast at a <a href="/wiki/Four_corners_(Canada)" title="Four corners (Canada)">quadripoint</a> that includes Nunavut and Saskatchewan. The land area of the Northwest Territories is roughly equal to that of France, Portugal and Spain combined, although its overall area is even larger because of its vast lakes. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name was originally descriptive, adopted by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">British government</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Early_modern_period" title="Early modern period">colonial era</a> to indicate where it lay in relation to the rest of <a href="/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a>. It has been shortened from <i>North-Western Territory</i> and then <i>North-West Territories</i>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Inuktitut" title="Inuktitut">Inuktitut</a>, the Northwest Territories are referred to as <span title="Inuktitut-language romanization"><i lang="iu-Latn">Nunatsiaq</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Inuktitut_syllabics" title="Inuktitut syllabics">Inuktitut syllabics</a> ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ), "beautiful land".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The northernmost region of the territory is home to the <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit" title="Inuvialuit">Inuvialuit</a>, who primarily live in the <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit_Settlement_Region" title="Inuvialuit Settlement Region">Inuvialuit Settlement Region</a> (Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq), while the southern portion is called <span title="Athapascan languages collective text"><i lang="ath">Denendeh</i></span> (an <a href="/wiki/Athabaskan_languages" title="Athabaskan languages">Athabaskan</a> word meaning "our land"). <span title="Athapascan languages collective text"><i lang="ath">Denendeh</i></span> is the vast Dene country, stretching from central Alaska to <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Bay" title="Hudson Bay">Hudson Bay</a>, within which lie the homelands of the numerous Dene nations. </p><p>Since the Yukon Territory was split from it in 1898, it is no longer the westernmost territory, and until <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a> was split from it in 1999 it included territory extending as far east as <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Canada" title="Atlantic Canada">Canada's Atlantic provinces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There has been some discussion of changing the name, possibly to a term from an Indigenous language. One proposal was "Denendeh", as advocated by the former premier <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Kakfwi" title="Stephen Kakfwi">Stephen Kakfwi</a>, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the most popular proposals for a new name—to name the territory "Bob"—began as a <a href="/wiki/Prank" class="mw-redirect" title="Prank">prank</a>, but for a while it was at or near the top in the <a href="/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">public-opinion polls</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Geography of the Northwest Territories">Geography of the Northwest Territories</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png/220px-Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png/330px-Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png/440px-Northwest_Territories_topographic_location_map.png 2x" data-file-width="880" data-file-height="1020" /></a><figcaption>Northwest Territories topographic location map</figcaption></figure> <p>Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, <a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">Yukon</a> to the west and Nunavut to the east, as well as four provinces: <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> to the southwest, <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a> to the south, and Manitoba (through a <a href="/wiki/Four_corners_(Canada)" title="Four corners (Canada)">quadripoint</a>) to the extreme southeast. It has a land area of 1,183,085 km<sup>2</sup> (456,792 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-area_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-area-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Geographical features include <a href="/wiki/Great_Bear_Lake" title="Great Bear Lake">Great Bear Lake</a>, the largest lake entirely within Canada,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Great_Slave_Lake" title="Great Slave Lake">Great Slave Lake</a>, the deepest body of water in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), as well as the <a href="/wiki/Mackenzie_River" title="Mackenzie River">Mackenzie River</a> and the canyons of the <a href="/wiki/Nahanni_National_Park_Reserve" title="Nahanni National Park Reserve">Nahanni National Park Reserve</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_parks_of_Canada" title="National parks of Canada">national park</a> and UNESCO <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>. Territorial islands in the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Arctic Archipelago">Canadian Arctic Archipelago</a> include <a href="/wiki/Banks_Island" title="Banks Island">Banks Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Borden_Island" title="Borden Island">Borden Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prince_Patrick_Island" title="Prince Patrick Island">Prince Patrick Island</a>, and parts of <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Island_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Island (Canada)">Victoria Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Melville_Island_(Northwest_Territories_and_Nunavut)" title="Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)">Melville Island</a>. Its highest point is <a href="/wiki/Mount_Nirvana" title="Mount Nirvana">Mount Nirvana</a> near the border with Yukon at an elevation of 2,773 m (9,098 ft). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_Arctic" title="Climate change in the Arctic">Climate change in the Arctic</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg/220px-Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg/330px-Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg/440px-Northwest_Territories_K%C3%B6ppen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="765" data-file-height="1152" /></a><figcaption>Köppen climate types in the Northwest Territories</figcaption></figure> <p>The Northwest Territories extends for more than 1,300,000 km<sup>2</sup> (500,000 sq mi) and has a large climate variance from south to north. The southern part of the territory (most of the mainland portion) has a <a href="/wiki/Subarctic_climate" title="Subarctic climate">subarctic climate</a>, while the islands and northern coast have a <a href="/wiki/Polar_climate" title="Polar climate">polar climate</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Summers in the north are short and cool, featuring daytime highs of 14–17 °C (57–63 °F) and lows of 1–5 °C (34–41 °F). Winters are long and harsh, with daytime highs of −20 to −25 °C (−4 to −13 °F) and lows of −30 to −35 °C (−22 to −31 °F). The coldest nights typically reach −40 to −45 °C (−40 to −49 °F) each year.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Extremes are common, with summer highs in the south reaching 36 °C (97 °F) and lows reaching below 0 °C (32 °F). In winter in the south, it is not uncommon for the temperatures to reach −40 °C (−40 °F), but they can also reach the low teens during the day. In the north, temperatures can reach highs of 30 °C (86 °F), and lows into the low negatives. In winter in the north, it is not uncommon for the temperatures to reach −50 °C (−58 °F) but they can also reach single digits during the day.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Thunderstorm" title="Thunderstorm">Thunderstorms</a> are not rare in the south. In the north, they are very rare but do occur.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tornado" title="Tornado">Tornadoes</a> are extremely rare but have happened with the most notable one happening<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (May 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> just outside Yellowknife that destroyed a communications tower.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Territory has a fairly dry climate due to the mountains in the west.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>About half of the territory is above the <a href="/wiki/Tree_line" title="Tree line">tree line</a>. There are not many trees in most of the eastern areas of the territory, or in the north islands.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for selected cities in Northwest Territories </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>City </th> <th>July (°C) </th> <th>July (°F) </th> <th>January (°C) </th> <th>January (°F) </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fort_Simpson" title="Fort Simpson">Fort Simpson</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>24/11</td> <td>75/52</td> <td>−20/−29</td> <td>−4/−19 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>21/13</td> <td>70/55</td> <td>−22/−30</td> <td>−7/−21 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Inuvik" title="Inuvik">Inuvik</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>20/9</td> <td>67/48</td> <td>−23/−31</td> <td>−9/−24 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sachs_Harbour" title="Sachs Harbour">Sachs Harbour</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>10/3</td> <td>50/38</td> <td>−24/−32</td> <td>−12/−25 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="History of the Northwest Territories">History of the Northwest Territories</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_Northwest_Territories_capital_cities" title="History of Northwest Territories capital cities">History of Northwest Territories capital cities</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit_Settlement_Region" title="Inuvialuit Settlement Region">Inuvialuit Settlement Region</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inuit_Nunangat" title="Inuit Nunangat">Inuit Nunangat</a>, and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis" title="Métis">Métis</a></div> <style 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Northwest+Territories%22">"Northwest Territories"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Northwest+Territories%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Northwest+Territories%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Northwest+Territories%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Northwest+Territories%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Northwest+Territories%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_athabaskan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Northern_athabaskan.svg/220px-Northern_athabaskan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Northern_athabaskan.svg/330px-Northern_athabaskan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Northern_athabaskan.svg/440px-Northern_athabaskan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="457" /></a><figcaption>The various <a href="/wiki/Dene" title="Dene">Dene</a> subdivisions including the <a href="/wiki/Sahtu" title="Sahtu">Got'iné</a> (labelled here as "North Slavey"), <a href="/wiki/T%C5%82%C4%B1%CC%A8ch%C7%AB" title="Tłı̨chǫ">Tłı̨chǫ</a> ("Dogrib"), <a href="/wiki/Gwich%CA%BCin" title="Gwichʼin">Gwichʼin</a>, and others</figcaption></figure> <p>There are multiple Indigenous territories overlapping the current borders of the Northwest Territories. These include <b>Denendeh</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-DeneNation_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeneNation-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit_Settlement_Region" title="Inuvialuit Settlement Region">Inuvialuit Settlement Region</a> (<i>Inuvialuit Nunangit Sannaiqtuaq</i>), and both <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis" title="Métis">Métis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plains_Cree_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Plains Cree people">Nêhiyawak</a> countries (Michif Piyii<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and ᓀᐦᐃᔮᓈᕁ <i>nêhiýânâhk</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> respectively). Of these, Denendeh and <a href="/wiki/Dene" title="Dene">the Dene nations</a> are the most prominent with the rest of the Dene country ("Dene-ndeh" or Deneland) covering much of what is now <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>, and the northern regions of the <a href="/wiki/Prairie_provinces" class="mw-redirect" title="Prairie provinces">prairie provinces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NativeLand_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NativeLand-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of its constituent territories include <a href="/wiki/T%C5%82%C4%B1%CC%A8ch%C7%AB_Government" title="Tłı̨chǫ Government">Tłı̨chǫ Country</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sahtu_Region" title="Sahtu Region">Got'iné Néné</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dehcho_Region" title="Dehcho Region">Dehchondéh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gwich%CA%BCin" title="Gwichʼin">Gwichʼin</a> Nành, amongst others including those of the <a href="/wiki/Chipewyan" title="Chipewyan">Dënë Sųłinë́</a> (Nëné, <small>"land"</small>), <a href="/wiki/Dane-zaa" title="Dane-zaa">Dane-z̲aa</a> (Nanéʔ), and the <a href="/wiki/Yellowknives" title="Yellowknives">T'satsąot'ınę</a> (Ndé). Historically, Dene have lived across Denendeh and what is now the NWT since <a href="/wiki/Time_immemorial" title="Time immemorial">time immemorial</a> and the era of <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Indigenous_law#Dene" title="Canadian Indigenous law">Yamoria and Yamozha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Yamozha_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yamozha-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yamoria_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yamoria-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg/220px-NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg/330px-NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg/440px-NWT-YT_Inuvialuit_Settlement_Locator.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="1305" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit_Settlement_Region" title="Inuvialuit Settlement Region">Inuvialuit Settlement Region</a>: Inuvialuit Nunangit</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inuvialuit_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Inuvialuit_flag.svg/220px-Inuvialuit_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Inuvialuit_flag.svg/330px-Inuvialuit_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Inuvialuit_flag.svg/440px-Inuvialuit_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit" title="Inuvialuit">Inuvialuit</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Along the northern coast live one of the <a href="/wiki/Inuit" title="Inuit">Inuit</a> sudivisions: the <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit" title="Inuvialuit">Inuvialuit</a>, a conglomerate of several Inuvialuit peoples, including the <a href="/wiki/Uummarmiut" title="Uummarmiut">Uummarmiut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kangiryuarmiut" title="Kangiryuarmiut">Kangiryuarmiut</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Siglit" title="Siglit">Siglit</a>. Their country, variously called <i>Inuvialuit Nunangit</i>, <i>Inuvialuit Nunungat</i>, or <i>Inuvialuit Nunangat</i> corresponds to the <a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit_Settlement_Region" title="Inuvialuit Settlement Region">Inuvialuit Settlement Region</a> and belongs to the greater <a href="/wiki/Inuit_Nunangat" title="Inuit Nunangat">Inuit Nunangat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amongst the other Inuit, there are also the <a href="/wiki/Copper_Inuit" title="Copper Inuit">Copper Inuit</a> who inhabit their traditional territory, <i>Inuinnait Nunangat</i>, between the <a href="/wiki/Kitikmeot_Region" title="Kitikmeot Region">Kitikmeot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Inuvik_Region" title="Inuvik Region">Inuvik Regions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To the south are the <a href="/wiki/Cree" title="Cree">Cree</a> <a href="/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> and <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis" title="Métis">Métis</a>. </p><p>In 1670, the <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> (HBC) was formed from a royal charter, and was granted a commercial monopoly over <a href="/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a>. Present day Northwest Territories laid northwest of Rupert's Land, and was known as the <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a>. Although not formally part of Rupert's Land, the HBC made regular use of the region as a part of its trading area. The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Utrecht_(1713)" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Utrecht (1713)">Treaty of Utrecht</a> saw the British become the only European power with practical access to the <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a>, with the French surrendering their claim to the Hudson Bay coast. </p><p>Europeans have visited the region for the purposes of <a href="/wiki/North_American_fur_trade" title="North American fur trade">fur trading</a>, and exploration for new trade routes, including the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Passage" title="Northwest Passage">Northwest Passage</a>. Arctic expeditions launched in the 19th century include the <a href="/wiki/Coppermine_expedition" title="Coppermine expedition">Coppermine expedition</a>. </p><p>In 1867, the first <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system" title="Canadian Indian residential school system">Canadian residential school</a> opened in the region in Fort Resolution. The opening of the school was followed by several others in regions across the territory, thus contributing to it reaching the highest percentage of students in residential schools compared to other area in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg/220px-Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg/330px-Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg/440px-Franklin%27s_canoes_in_gale.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Members of the <a href="/wiki/Coppermine_expedition" title="Coppermine expedition">Coppermine expedition</a> caught by a storm in <a href="/wiki/Coronation_Gulf" title="Coronation Gulf">Coronation Gulf</a>, August 1821</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:North-western-territory.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/North-western-territory.png/220px-North-western-territory.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/North-western-territory.png/330px-North-western-territory.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/North-western-territory.png 2x" data-file-width="401" data-file-height="238" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a>, 1859</figcaption></figure> <p>The present-day territory came under the authority of the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Canada" title="Government of Canada">Government of Canada</a> in July 1870, after the <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> transferred <a href="/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a> and the <a href="/wiki/North-Western_Territory" title="North-Western Territory">North-Western Territory</a> to the British Crown, which subsequently transferred them to Canada, giving it the name the North-West Territories. This immense region comprised all of today's Canada except British Columbia, an early form of <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a> (a small square area around <a href="/wiki/Winnipeg" title="Winnipeg">Winnipeg</a>), early forms of present-day Ontario and Quebec (the coast of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">Saint Lawrence River</a> valley and the southern third of modern <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Maritimes" class="mw-redirect" title="Maritimes">Maritimes</a> (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick), <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Labrador" title="Labrador">Labrador</a> coast, and the <a href="/wiki/British_Arctic_Territories" title="British Arctic Territories">Arctic Islands</a> (except the southern half of <a href="/wiki/Baffin_Island" title="Baffin Island">Baffin Island</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="floatleft"> <div class="" style="width:280px"><div style="position: relative; width:280px;"> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 7.9%; top: 59.4%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_British_Columbia" title="History of British Columbia">BC</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 18.4%; top: 62.2%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Alberta" title="History of Alberta">AB</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 27.8%; top: 67%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Saskatchewan" title="History of Saskatchewan">SK</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 37.6%; top: 68%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Manitoba" title="History of Manitoba">MB</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 50%; top: 71.9%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Ontario" title="History of Ontario">ON</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 68.6%; top: 68%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Quebec" title="History of Quebec">QC</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 79.6%; top: 76%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_New_Brunswick" title="History of New Brunswick">NB</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 83.9%; top: 70.8%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Prince_Edward_Island" title="History of Prince Edward Island">PE</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 86.8%; top: 77%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Nova_Scotia" title="History of Nova Scotia">NS</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 90.4%; top: 62.7%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="History of Newfoundland and Labrador">NL</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 8%; top: 32.5%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Yukon" title="History of Yukon">YT</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 21.4%; top: 40.2%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="History of the Northwest Territories">NT</a></b></div> <div style="position: absolute; font-size: 88%; left: 39.3%; top: 42.9%; padding: 0;"><b><a href="/wiki/History_of_Nunavut" title="History of Nunavut">NU</a></b></div> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Canadian Provinces and Territories"><img alt="Canadian Provinces and Territories" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif/280px-Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif" decoding="async" width="280" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif/420px-Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif/560px-Canada_provinces_evolution_2.gif 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="864" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Timeline of the divisions of Canada; size of the Northwest Territories changes throughout 1870 to 1999</div></div> </div> <p>After the 1870 transfer, some of the North-West Territories was whittled away. The province of <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a> was enlarged in 1881 to a rectangular region composing the modern province's south. By the time British Columbia joined Confederation on July 20, 1871, it had already (1866) been granted the portion of North-Western Territory south of <a href="/wiki/60th_parallel_north" title="60th parallel north">60 degrees north</a> and west of <a href="/wiki/120th_meridian_west" title="120th meridian west">120 degrees west</a>, an area that comprised most of the <a href="/wiki/Stickeen_Territories" title="Stickeen Territories">Stickeen Territories</a> (and a portion of the Peace River country).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg/170px-Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg/255px-Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg/340px-Northwest_Territories_Proclamation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="829" /></a><figcaption>A proclamation concerning the formation of the North-West Territories, from recently transferred territories to the Canadian government</figcaption></figure> <p>The North-West Territories Council was created in 1875 for more local government in the North-West Territories.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At first wholly made up of appointed members, it got its first elected members in 1882 and became wholly elected in 1888 when the council was reorganized as the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories. <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Haultain" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Haultain">Frederick Haultain</a>, an Ontario lawyer who practised at Fort Macleod from 1884, became its chairman in 1891 and Premier when the Assembly was reorganized in 1897. The modern provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were created in 1905. Contemporary records show Haultain recommended that the NWT become a single province, named Buffalo, but the Canadian government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier acted otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the meantime, the <a href="/wiki/British_Arctic_Territories" title="British Arctic Territories">British Arctic Territories</a> were transferred to Canada and added to the North-West Territories in 1880. The province of <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a> was enlarged north-westward in 1882. Quebec was also extended northwards in 1898. Yukon was also made a separate territory that year and eventually gained additional territorial powers with the 2003 <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yukon_Act&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yukon Act (page does not exist)">Yukon Act</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One year after the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Canada" title="Parliament of Canada">Parliament of Canada</a> renamed the "North-West Territories" as the <i>Northwest Territories</i>, dropping all <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphenated</a> forms of it.<sup id="cite_ref-PWNHC_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PWNHC-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec acquired the last addition to their modern landmass from the Northwest Territories in 1912. This left only the districts of <a href="/wiki/District_of_Mackenzie" title="District of Mackenzie">Mackenzie</a>, <a href="/wiki/District_of_Franklin" title="District of Franklin">Franklin</a> (which absorbed the remnants of <a href="/wiki/District_of_Ungava" title="District of Ungava">Ungava</a> in 1920) and <a href="/wiki/Keewatin_Region" title="Keewatin Region">Keewatin</a> within what was then given the name Northwest Territories. In 1925, the boundaries of the Northwest Territories were extended all the way to the <a href="/wiki/North_Pole" title="North Pole">North Pole</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Sector_principle" title="Sector principle">sector principle</a>, vastly expanding its territory onto the northern <a href="/wiki/Ice_cap" title="Ice cap">ice cap</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Between 1925 and 1999, the Northwest Territories covered a land area of 3,439,296 km<sup>2</sup> (1,327,920 sq mi)—larger than one-third of Canada in terms of area.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On April 1, 1999, a separate <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a> territory was formed from the eastern Northwest Territories to represent the Inuit.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Demographics of the Northwest Territories">Demographics of the Northwest Territories</a></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:0; top:0; border-width:0 200px 200px 0; border-color:#000000; z-index:-1"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 3182.0515953774px; border-left-color:#3183d6"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#3183d6"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:#3183d6"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 164.34184888722px; border-left-color:#a0a0a0"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#a0a0a0"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:#a0a0a0"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 44.774059537341px; border-left-color:#eddb38"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#eddb38"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:#eddb38"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;right:100px; top:100px; border-width:97.985505238425px 19.970998051441px 0 0; border-top-color:#ba1d1d"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:#ba1d1d"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;right:100px; top:0; border-width:0 132.31967989222px 100px 0; border-right-color:#d8d8d8"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;right:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 100px 0;border-color:#d8d8d8"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Visible minority and indigenous identity (2016):<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#d8d8d8; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/European_Canadians" title="European Canadians">European Canadian</a> (39.7%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#ba1d1d; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> (32.1%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#eddb38; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Inuit" title="Inuit">Inuit</a> (9.9%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#a0a0a0; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Visible_minority" title="Visible minority">Visible minority</a> (9.6%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#3183d6; color:black;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis" title="Métis">Métis</a> (8.2%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#000000; color:white;-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; print-color-adjust: exact;"> </span> Other Indigenous responses (0.5%)</div> </div> </div></div> <p>The NWT is one of two jurisdictions in Canada – Nunavut being the other – where <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_peoples_in_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal peoples in Canada">Indigenous peoples</a> are in the majority, constituting 50.4% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-census2016_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2016-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2016 Canadian census, the 10 major <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">ethnic groups</a> were:<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> – 36.8%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_ethnicity" title="Canadian ethnicity">Canadian</a> – 18.6%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="English Canadian">English</a> – 15.9%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Canadian">Scottish</a> – 14.8%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Canadian">Irish</a> – 12.3%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuit" title="Inuit">Inuit</a> (<a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit" title="Inuvialuit">Inuvialuit</a>) – 10.9%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="French Canadian">French</a> – 10.3%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadians_of_German_ethnicity" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadians of German ethnicity">German</a> – 8.3%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_people_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Métis people (Canada)">Métis</a> – 7.1%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Canadian">Ukrainian</a> – 3.1%</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language">Language</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife,_NT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A metallic white sign on a gray background with a red and blue depiction of a building at the top. Below it is text in blue saying "Eye Clinic" in English, French and the other nine official territorial languages" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife%2C_NT.jpg/170px-Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife%2C_NT.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife%2C_NT.jpg/255px-Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife%2C_NT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife%2C_NT.jpg/340px-Multilingual_sign_for_eye_clinic_in_Yellowknife%2C_NT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="4600" /></a><figcaption>Sign for an eye clinic in <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a> with all 11 official territorial languages</figcaption></figure> <p>French was made an official language in 1877 by the then-territorial government. After a lengthy and bitter debate resulting from a <a href="/wiki/Speech_from_the_throne" title="Speech from the throne">speech from the throne</a> in 1888 by <a href="/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_governors_of_the_Northwest_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="List of lieutenant governors of the Northwest Territories">Lieutenant Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Royal" title="Joseph Royal">Joseph Royal</a>, the members of the time voted on more than one occasion to nullify this and make English the only language used in the assembly. After some conflict with the Confederation Government in <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>, and a decisive vote on January 19, 1892, the assembly members voted for an English-only territory. </p><p>Currently, the Northwest Territories' <i>Official Languages Act</i> recognizes the following eleven <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">official languages</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-lang1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lang2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lang2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chipewyan_language" title="Chipewyan language">Chipewyan/Dené</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cree_language" title="Cree language">Cree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_English" title="Canadian English">English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_French" title="Canadian French">French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwich%E2%80%99in_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Gwich’in language">Gwich’in</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuinnaqtun" title="Inuinnaqtun">Inuinnaqtun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuktitut" title="Inuktitut">Inuktitut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvialuktun" title="Inuvialuktun">Inuvialuktun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavey_language" title="Slavey language">North Slavey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavey_language" title="Slavey language">South Slavey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogrib_language" title="Dogrib language">Tłı̨chǫ</a> (Dogrib)</li></ul> </div> <p>NWT residents have a right to use any of the above languages in a territorial court, and in the debates and proceedings of the legislature. However, the laws are legally binding only in their French and English versions, and the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Politics of the Northwest Territories">NWT government</a> only publishes laws and other documents in the territory's other official languages when the legislature asks it to. Furthermore, access to services in any language is limited to institutions and circumstances where there is a significant demand for that language or where it is reasonable to expect it given the nature of the services requested. In practical terms, English language services are universally available, and there is no guarantee that other languages, including French, will be used by any particular government service, except for the courts. </p><p>The 2016 census returns showed a population of 41,786. Of the 40,565 singular responses to the census question regarding each inhabitant's "mother tongue", the most reported languages were the following (italics indicate an official language of the NWT): </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td>1 </td> <td><i>English</i> </td> <td>31,765 </td> <td>78.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>Dogrib (<i>Tłı̨chǫ</i>) </td> <td>1,600 </td> <td>3.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><i>French</i> </td> <td>1,175 </td> <td>2.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td><i>South Slavey</i> </td> <td>775 </td> <td>1.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td><i>North Slavey</i> </td> <td>745 </td> <td>1.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a> </td> <td>745 </td> <td>1.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><i>Inuinnaqtun</i> </td> <td>470 </td> <td>1.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>Dené </td> <td>440 </td> <td>1.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>Slavey (not otherwise specified) </td> <td>175 </td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td><i>Gwich'in</i> </td> <td>140 </td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td><i>Cree</i> </td> <td>130 </td> <td>0.3% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>There were also 630 responses of both English and a "non-official language"; 35 of both French and a "non-official language"; 145 of both English and French, and about 400 people who either did not respond to the question, or reported multiple non-official languages, or else gave some other unenumerable response. (Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses.)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 2021 Census, 55.2% of the population followed Christianity (primarily <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a>); this is down from 67.6% in the 2001 Census. At the same time, the population reported having no religious affiliation has more than doubled, from 17.4% in 2001 to 39.8% in 2021 census. About 5.0% reported other religious affiliations.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Communities">Communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_communities_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of communities in the Northwest Territories">List of communities in the Northwest Territories</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories">List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories</a></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Five largest municipalities by population </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Municipality </th> <th>2016 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a><sup id="cite_ref-CYZF_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CYZF-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>19,569 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hay_River,_Northwest_Territories" title="Hay River, Northwest Territories">Hay River</a><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>3,528 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Inuvik" title="Inuvik">Inuvik</a><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>3,243 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith,_Northwest_Territories" title="Fort Smith, Northwest Territories">Fort Smith</a><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>2,542 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Behchok%C7%AB%CC%80" title="Behchokǫ̀">Behchokǫ̀</a><sup id="cite_ref-bech2011_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bech2011-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>1,874 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of 2014, there are 33 official communities in the NWT.<sup id="cite_ref-maca_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maca-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These range in size from Yellowknife with a population of 19,569<sup id="cite_ref-CYZF_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CYZF-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to <a href="/wiki/Kakisa" title="Kakisa">Kakisa</a> with 36 people.<sup id="cite_ref-kakisa_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kakisa-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Governance of each community differs, some are run under various types of First Nations control, while others are designated as a city, town, village or hamlet, but most communities are <a href="/wiki/Municipal_government_in_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal government in Canada">municipal corporations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-maca_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maca-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yellowknife is the largest community and has the largest number of Aboriginal peoples, 4,520 (23.4%) people.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Behchok%C7%AB%CC%80" title="Behchokǫ̀">Behchokǫ̀</a>, with a population of 1,874,<sup id="cite_ref-bech2016_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bech2016-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the largest First Nations community, 1,696 (90.9%),<sup id="cite_ref-behc_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-behc-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Inuvik" title="Inuvik">Inuvik</a> with 3,243 people<sup id="cite_ref-YEV2011_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YEV2011-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the largest Inuvialuit community, 1,315 (40.5%).<sup id="cite_ref-CYEV_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CYEV-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is one <a href="/wiki/Indian_reserve" title="Indian reserve">Indian reserve</a> in the NWT, <a href="/wiki/Hay_River_Reserve" title="Hay River Reserve">Hay River Reserve</a>, located on the south shore of the <a href="/wiki/Hay_River_(Canada)" title="Hay River (Canada)">Hay River</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">gross domestic product</a> of the Northwest Territories was <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">C$</a>4.856 billion in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has the highest per capita GDP of all provinces and territories in Canada, totalling <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">C$</a>76,000 in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mining">Mining</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mining"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Territories' geological resources include gold, diamonds, <a href="/wiki/Beaufort_Sea#Oil_and_gas_exploration" title="Beaufort Sea">natural gas and petroleum</a>. <a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a> is the only oil company currently producing oil there. Its diamonds are promoted as an alternative to purchasing <a href="/wiki/Blood_diamond" title="Blood diamond">blood diamonds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two of the biggest mineral resource companies in the world, <a href="/wiki/BHP" title="BHP">BHP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rio_Tinto_(corporation)" title="Rio Tinto (corporation)">Rio Tinto</a> mine many of their diamonds there. In 2010, Territories' accounted for 28.5% of Rio Tinto's total diamond production (3.9 million carats, 17% more than in 2009, from the <a href="/wiki/Diavik_Diamond_Mine" title="Diavik Diamond Mine">Diavik Diamond Mine</a>) and 100% of BHP's (3.05 million carats from the <a href="/wiki/Ekati_Diamond_Mine" title="Ekati Diamond Mine">EKATI mine</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Eldorado_Mine_(Northwest_Territories)" title="Eldorado Mine (Northwest Territories)">Eldorado Mine</a> produced <a href="/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium">uranium</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Radium" title="Radium">radium</a>, silver, and copper (for other uses). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diavik_Diamond_Mine,_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Diavik_Diamond_Mine%2C_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg/220px-Diavik_Diamond_Mine%2C_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Diavik_Diamond_Mine%2C_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg/330px-Diavik_Diamond_Mine%2C_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Diavik_Diamond_Mine%2C_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg/440px-Diavik_Diamond_Mine%2C_Canada_by_Planet_Labs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2961" data-file-height="2221" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of the <a href="/wiki/Diavik_Diamond_Mine" title="Diavik Diamond Mine">Diavik Diamond Mine</a> in the <a href="/wiki/North_Slave_Region" title="North Slave Region">North Slave Region</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_mines_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of mines in the Northwest Territories">List of mines in the Northwest Territories</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eldorado_Mine_(Northwest_Territories)" title="Eldorado Mine (Northwest Territories)">Eldorado Mine</a> – 1933–1940, 1942–1960, 1976–1982 (<a href="/wiki/Radium" title="Radium">radium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium">uranium</a>, silver, copper)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Con_Mine" title="Con Mine">Con Mine</a> – 1938–2003 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negus_Mine" title="Negus Mine">Negus Mine</a> – 1939–1952 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptarmigan_and_Tom_Mine" title="Ptarmigan and Tom Mine">Ptarmigan and Tom Mine</a> – 1941–1942, 1986–1997 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thompson-Lundmark_Mine" title="Thompson-Lundmark Mine">Thompson-Lundmark Mine</a> – 1941–1943, 1947–1949 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_Mine" title="Giant Mine">Giant Mine</a> – 1948–2004 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discovery_Mine" title="Discovery Mine">Discovery Mine</a> – 1950–1969 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rayrock_Mine" title="Rayrock Mine">Rayrock Mine</a> – 1957–1959 (uranium)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camlaren_Mine" title="Camlaren Mine">Camlaren Mine</a> – 1962–1963, 1980–1981 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cantung_Mine" title="Cantung Mine">Cantung Mine</a> – 1962–1986, 2002–2003, 2005–2015 (<a href="/wiki/Tungsten" title="Tungsten">tungsten</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echo_Bay_Mines" title="Echo Bay Mines">Echo Bay Mines</a> – 1964–1975 (silver and copper)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_Point_Mine" title="Pine Point Mine">Pine Point Mine</a> – 1964–1988 (lead and <a href="/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc">zinc</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tundra_Mine" title="Tundra Mine">Tundra Mine</a> – 1964–1968 (gold)</li> <li>Terra Mine – 1969–1985 (silver and copper)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmita_Mine" title="Salmita Mine">Salmita Mine</a> – 1983–1987 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colomac_Mine" title="Colomac Mine">Colomac Mine</a> – 1990–1992, 1994–1997 (gold)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekati_Diamond_Mine" title="Ekati Diamond Mine">Ekati Diamond Mine</a> – 1998–current (diamonds)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diavik_Diamond_Mine" title="Diavik Diamond Mine">Diavik Diamond Mine</a> – 2003–current (diamonds)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snap_Lake_Diamond_Mine" title="Snap Lake Diamond Mine">Snap Lake Diamond Mine</a> – 2007–2015 (diamonds)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tourism">Tourism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg/220px-Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg/330px-Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg/440px-Nahanni_River_-_Third_Canyon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nahanni_National_Park_Reserve" title="Nahanni National Park Reserve">Nahanni National Park Reserve</a>, one of several <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Canada" title="List of national parks of Canada">national parks and reserves</a> in the Northwest Territories</figcaption></figure> <p>During the winter, many international visitors go to <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a> to watch the <a href="/wiki/Aurora" title="Aurora">auroras</a>. Five areas managed by <a href="/wiki/Parks_Canada" title="Parks Canada">Parks Canada</a> are situated within the territory: <a href="/wiki/Aulavik_National_Park" title="Aulavik National Park">Aulavik</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tuktut_Nogait_National_Park" title="Tuktut Nogait National Park">Tuktut Nogait National Parks</a> are in the northern part. Portions of <a href="/wiki/Wood_Buffalo_National_Park" title="Wood Buffalo National Park">Wood Buffalo National Park</a> are located within it, although most of it is located in neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>. <a href="/wiki/Parks_Canada" title="Parks Canada">Parks Canada</a> also manages three park reserves: <a href="/wiki/N%C3%A1%C3%A1ts%27ihch%27oh_National_Park_Reserve" title="Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve">Nááts'ihch'oh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nahanni_National_Park_Reserve" title="Nahanni National Park Reserve">Nahanni National Park Reserve</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Thaidene_N%C3%ABn%C3%A9_National_Park_Reserve" title="Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve">Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Politics of the Northwest Territories">Politics of the Northwest Territories</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg/220px-Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg/330px-Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg/440px-Legislative_Assembly_of_Northwest_Territories.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>The chamber of the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories_Legislative_Building" title="Northwest Territories Legislative Building">Northwest Territories Legislative Building</a></figcaption></figure> <p>As a territory, the NWT has fewer rights than the provinces. During his term, Premier Kakfwi pushed to have the federal government accord more rights to the territory, including having a greater share of the returns from the territory's natural resources go to the territory.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Devolution of powers to the territory was an issue in the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories_general_election,_2003" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwest Territories general election, 2003">20th general election</a> in 2003, and has been ever since the territory began electing members in 1881. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Commissioner#Canadian_territories" title="Commissioner">Commissioner</a> of the NWT is the chief executive and is appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada#Constitutional_role" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor-in-Council of Canada</a> on the recommendation of the federal <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Aboriginal_Affairs_and_Northern_Development_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (Canada)">Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development</a>. The position used to be more administrative and governmental, but with the devolution of more powers to the elected assembly since 1967, the position has become symbolic. The commissioner had full governmental powers until 1980 when the territories were given greater self-government. The legislative assembly then began electing a cabinet and <i>government leader</i>, later known as the <a href="/wiki/Premier_(Canada)" title="Premier (Canada)">premier</a>. Since 1985 the commissioner no longer chairs meetings of the <a href="/wiki/Executive_Council_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Executive Council of the Northwest Territories">executive council</a> (or cabinet), and the federal government has instructed commissioners to behave like a provincial <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_governor_(Canada)" title="Lieutenant governor (Canada)">lieutenant governor</a>. Unlike lieutenant governors, the <a href="/wiki/Commissioners_of_the_Northwest_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioners of the Northwest Territories">Commissioner of the Northwest Territories</a> is not a formal representative of the <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada" title="Monarchy of Canada">King of Canada</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Unlike provincial governments and the government of Yukon, the government of the Northwest Territories does not have political parties. It never has had political parties except for the period between 1898 and 1905. Its <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories">legislative assembly</a> operates through the <a href="/wiki/Consensus_government_in_Canada" title="Consensus government in Canada">consensus government</a> model. The website of the NWT government describes consensus government thusly: "The Northwest Territories is one of only two jurisdictions in Canada with a consensus system of government instead of one based on party politics. In our system, all Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are elected as independents. Shortly after the election, all Members meet as a Caucus to set priorities for that Assembly. The Caucus remains active throughout their term as the forum where all Members meet as equals.[...] Compared to the party system, there is much more communication between Regular Members and Cabinet. All legislation, major policies, and proposed budgets pass through the Regular Members' standing committees before coming to the House."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The NWT Legislative Assembly is composed of one member elected from each of the nineteen constituencies. After <a href="/wiki/List_of_Northwest_Territories_general_elections" title="List of Northwest Territories general elections">each general election</a>, the new assembly elects the <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Premier of the Northwest Territories">premier</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories">speaker</a> by secret ballot. Seven MLAs are also chosen as cabinet ministers, with the remainder forming the opposition. </p><p>The membership of the <a href="/wiki/20th_Northwest_Territories_Legislative_Assembly" title="20th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly">current legislative assembly</a> was set by the <a href="/wiki/2023_Northwest_Territories_general_election" title="2023 Northwest Territories general election">2023 Northwest Territories general election</a> on November 14, 2023. <a href="/wiki/R.J._Simpson" title="R.J. Simpson">R.J. Simpson</a> was selected as the new premier by his fellow MLAs on December 7, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The member of Parliament for the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories_(electoral_district)" title="Northwest Territories (electoral district)">Northwest Territories</a> is <a href="/wiki/Michael_McLeod_(politician)" title="Michael McLeod (politician)">Michael McLeod</a> (<a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party (Canada)">Liberal Party</a>). The Commissioner of the Northwest Territories is <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Kisoun" title="Gerald Kisoun">Gerald Kisoun</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Canada" title="Parliament of Canada">Parliament of Canada</a>, the NWT comprises a single <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Senate_divisions" title="Canadian Senate divisions">Senate division</a> and a single <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_(Canada)" title="Electoral district (Canada)">House of Commons electoral district</a>, titled <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories_(electoral_district)" title="Northwest Territories (electoral district)">Northwest Territories</a> (<i>Western Arctic</i> until 2014). Thus a single MP represents an area that is almost 14 percent of the land area of all of Canada. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Departments">Departments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Departments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The government of Northwest Territories comprises the following departments:<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>Education, Culture and Employment</li> <li>Environment and Climate Change</li> <li>Executive and Indigenous Affairs</li> <li>Finance</li> <li>Health and Social Services</li> <li>Industry, Tourism and Investment</li> <li>Infrastructure</li> <li>Justice</li> <li>Legislative Assembly</li> <li>Municipal and Community Affairs</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_regions">Administrative regions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Administrative regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg/170px-NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg/255px-NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg/340px-NWT_All_Region_Locator.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="922" data-file-height="1278" /></a><figcaption>Administrative regions of the Northwest Territories</figcaption></figure> <p>The Northwest Territories is divided into five <a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of regions of the Northwest Territories">administrative regions</a> (regional offices in parentheses): </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dehcho_Region" title="Dehcho Region">Dehcho Region</a> (<a href="/wiki/Fort_Simpson" title="Fort Simpson">Fort Simpson</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-macadecho_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macadecho-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvik_Region" title="Inuvik Region">Inuvik Region</a> (<a href="/wiki/Inuvik" title="Inuvik">Inuvik</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Slave_Region" title="North Slave Region">North Slave Region</a> (<a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a> and <a href="/wiki/Behchoko" class="mw-redirect" title="Behchoko">Behchoko</a> [sub-office])<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahtu_Region" title="Sahtu Region">Sahtu Region</a> (<a href="/wiki/Norman_Wells" title="Norman Wells">Norman Wells</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Slave_Region" title="South Slave Region">South Slave Region</a> (<a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith,_Northwest_Territories" title="Fort Smith, Northwest Territories">Fort Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hay_River,_Northwest_Territories" title="Hay River, Northwest Territories">Hay River</a> [sub-office])<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Music of the Northwest Territories">Music of the Northwest Territories</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG/220px-Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG/330px-Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG/440px-Snowcastle_under_construction_in_Yellowknife_02.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Snow_fort" title="Snow fort">snow fort</a> at the annual <a href="/wiki/Snowking_Winter_Festival" title="Snowking Winter Festival">Snowking Winter Festival</a> in Yellowknife</figcaption></figure> <p>Aboriginal issues in the Northwest Territories include the fate of the <a href="/wiki/Dene" title="Dene">Dene</a> who, in the 1940s, were employed to carry radioactive uranium ore from the mines on Great Bear Lake. Of the thirty plus miners who worked at the <a href="/wiki/Port_Radium,_Northwest_Territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Port Radium, Northwest Territories">Port Radium</a> site, at least fourteen have died due to various forms of cancer. A study was done in the community of <a href="/wiki/Deline" class="mw-redirect" title="Deline">Deline</a>, called <i>A Village of Widows</i> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cindy_Kenny-Gilday&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cindy Kenny-Gilday (page does not exist)">Cindy Kenny-Gilday</a>, which indicated that the number of people involved were too small to be able to confirm or deny a link.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There has been racial tension based on a history of <a href="/wiki/Bloody_Falls_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Bloody Falls Massacre">violent conflict between the Dene and the Inuit</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who have now taken recent steps towards reconciliation. </p><p>Land claims in the NWT began with the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, signed on June 5, 1984. It was the first Land Claim signed in the Territory, and the second in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-Inuvialuit_Regional_Corporation_Website_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inuvialuit_Regional_Corporation_Website-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It culminated with the creation of the Inuit homeland of Nunavut, the result of the <a href="/wiki/Nunavut_Land_Claims_Agreement" title="Nunavut Land Claims Agreement">Nunavut Land Claims Agreement</a>, the largest land claim in Canadian history.<sup id="cite_ref-NLCA_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NLCA-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another land claims agreement with the <a href="/wiki/T%C5%82%C4%B1%CC%A8ch%C7%AB_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tłı̨chǫ people">Tłı̨chǫ people</a> created a region within the NWT called <a href="/wiki/Tlicho_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlicho Government">Tli Cho</a>, between Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, which gives the Tłı̨chǫ their own legislative bodies, taxes, resource royalties, and other affairs, though the NWT still maintains control over such areas as health and education. This area includes two of Canada's three diamond mines, at Ekati and Diavik.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Festivals">Festivals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Festivals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Festivals_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Category:Festivals in the Northwest Territories">Category:Festivals in the Northwest Territories</a></div> <p>Among the festivals in the region are the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Arts_Festival" title="Great Northern Arts Festival">Great Northern Arts Festival</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Snowking_Winter_Festival" title="Snowking Winter Festival">Snowking Winter Festival</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folk_on_the_Rocks" class="mw-redirect" title="Folk on the Rocks">Folk on the Rocks</a> music festival in <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rockin_the_Rocks" title="Rockin the Rocks">Rockin the Rocks</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Northwest_Territories" title="Special:EditPage/Northwest Territories">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Northwest_Territories_highways" title="List of Northwest Territories highways">List of Northwest Territories highways</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dempster_2769.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Dempster_2769.jpg/220px-Dempster_2769.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Dempster_2769.jpg/330px-Dempster_2769.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Dempster_2769.jpg/440px-Dempster_2769.jpg 2x" data-file-width="704" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dempster_Highway" title="Dempster Highway">Dempster Highway</a>, south of <a href="/wiki/Inuvik" title="Inuvik">Inuvik</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NWT-DSC00481.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/NWT-DSC00481.jpg/220px-NWT-DSC00481.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/NWT-DSC00481.jpg/330px-NWT-DSC00481.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/NWT-DSC00481.jpg/440px-NWT-DSC00481.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5472" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Entering the Northwest Territories from Alberta on the MacKenzie Highway</figcaption></figure> <p>Northwest Territories has nine numbered highways. The longest is the <a href="/wiki/Mackenzie_Highway" title="Mackenzie Highway">Mackenzie Highway</a>, which stretches from the <a href="/wiki/Alberta_Highway_35" title="Alberta Highway 35">Alberta Highway 35</a>'s northern terminus in the south at the Alberta – Northwest Territories border at the 60th parallel to <a href="/wiki/Wrigley,_Northwest_Territories" title="Wrigley, Northwest Territories">Wrigley, Northwest Territories</a> in the north. <a href="/wiki/Ice_road" title="Ice road">Ice roads</a> and <a href="/wiki/Winter_road" title="Winter road">winter roads</a> are also prominent and provide road access in winter to towns and mines which would otherwise be <a href="/wiki/Remote_and_isolated_community" title="Remote and isolated community">fly-in locations</a>. <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife_Highway" title="Yellowknife Highway">Yellowknife Highway</a> branches out from Mackenzie Highway and connects it to Yellowknife. <a href="/wiki/Dempster_Highway" title="Dempster Highway">Dempster Highway</a> is the continuation of <a href="/wiki/Klondike_Highway" title="Klondike Highway">Klondike Highway</a>. It starts just west of <a href="/wiki/Dawson_City" title="Dawson City">Dawson City</a>, Yukon, and continues east for over 700 km (430 mi) to Inuvik. As of 2017, the all-season <a href="/wiki/Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway">Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway</a> connects Inuvik to communities along the Arctic Ocean as an extension of the Dempster Highway. </p><p>Yellowknife did not have an all-season road access to the rest of Canada's highway network until the completion of <a href="/wiki/Deh_Cho_Bridge" title="Deh Cho Bridge">Deh Cho Bridge</a> in 2012. Prior to that, traffic relied on ferry service in summer and ice road in winter to cross the <a href="/wiki/Mackenzie_River" title="Mackenzie River">Mackenzie River</a>. This became a problem during spring and fall time when the ice was not thick enough to handle vehicle load but the ferry could not pass through the ice, which would require all goods from fuel to groceries to be airlifted during the transition period. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg/220px-NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg/330px-NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg/440px-NWT_license_plate_38542.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2899" data-file-height="1580" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Vehicle registration plates of the Northwest Territories">Northwest Territories licence plate</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Northwest Territories is the only jurisdiction in North America to issue a non rectangular standard licence plate. Instead, the territory issues a licence plate shaped like a polar bear. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_transit">Public transit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Public transit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife_Transit" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellowknife Transit">Yellowknife Transit</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Public_transportation" class="mw-redirect" title="Public transportation">public transportation</a> agency in the city, and is the only transit system within the Northwest Territories.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Air">Air</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Air"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of airports in the Northwest Territories">List of airports in the Northwest Territories</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_(YZF).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_%28YZF%29.jpg/220px-2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_%28YZF%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_%28YZF%29.jpg/330px-2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_%28YZF%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_%28YZF%29.jpg/440px-2015-09-06_Terminal_at_Yellowknife_Airport_%28YZF%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Entrance to <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife_Airport" title="Yellowknife Airport">Yellowknife Airport</a>, the largest <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">airport</a> in the territory</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife_Airport" title="Yellowknife Airport">Yellowknife Airport</a> is the largest airport in the territory in terms of aircraft movements and passengers. It is the gateway airport to other destinations within the Northwest Territories. As the airport of the territory capital, it is part of the <a href="/wiki/National_Airports_System" title="National Airports System">National Airports System</a>. It is the hub of multiple regional airlines. Major airlines serving destinations within Northwest Territories include <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Airways" title="Buffalo Airways">Buffalo Airways</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canadian_North" title="Canadian North">Canadian North</a>, <a href="/wiki/North-Wright_Airways" title="North-Wright Airways">North-Wright Airways</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Territories&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of ghost towns in the Northwest Territories">List of ghost towns in the Northwest Territories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scouting_and_Guiding_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Scouting and Guiding in the Northwest Territories">Scouting and Guiding in the Northwest Territories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symbols_of_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Symbols of the Northwest Territories">Symbols of the Northwest Territories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="Education in the Northwest Territories">Education in the Northwest Territories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of people from the Northwest Territories">List of people from the Northwest Territories</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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<i>www4.rncan.gc.ca</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191217103732/http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/LBCFC">Archived</a> from the original on December 17, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 15,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www4.rncan.gc.ca&rft.atitle=Place+names+-+Territoires+du+Nord-Ouest&rft.aulast=Government+of+Canada&rft.aufirst=Natural+Resources+Canada&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww4.rncan.gc.ca%2Fsearch-place-names%2Funique%2FLBCFC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorthwest+Territories" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CGNDB-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CGNDB_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=LBCFB">"Northwest Territories"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base" title="GeoBase (geospatial data)">Geographical Names Data Base</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Natural_Resources_Canada" title="Natural Resources Canada">Natural Resources Canada</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Northwest+Territories&rft.btitle=Geographical+Names+Data+Base&rft.pub=Natural+Resources+Canada&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgeonames.nrcan.gc.ca%2Fsearch-place-names%2Funique%3Fid%3DLBCFB&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorthwest+Territories" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-StatCan2021-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-StatCan2021_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-StatCan2021_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000101">"Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Canada" title="Statistics Canada">Statistics Canada</a>. February 9, 2022. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220209134802/https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000101">Archived</a> from the original on February 9, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 28,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Population+estimates%2C+quarterly&rft.pub=Statistics+Canada&rft.date=2023-09-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww150.statcan.gc.ca%2Ft1%2Ftbl1%2Fen%2Ftv.action%3Fpid%3D1710000901&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorthwest+Territories" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The terms <i>Northwest Territorian</i>(<i>s</i>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/_live/documents/documentManagerUpload/HN040325.pdf">Hansard, Thursday, March 25, 2004</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090324220726/http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/_live/documents/documentManagerUpload/HN040325.pdf">Archived</a> March 24, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, and (informally) <i>NWTer</i>(<i>s</i>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/_live/documents/documentManagerUpload/hn061023.pdf">Hansard, Monday, October 23, 2006</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090324220716/http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/_live/documents/documentManagerUpload/hn061023.pdf">Archived</a> March 24, 2009, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, occur in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/documents-proceedings/hansard">official record of the territorial legislature</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160604192750/http://www.assembly.gov.nt.ca/documents-proceedings/hansard">Archived</a> June 4, 2016, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. 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Government of the Northwest Territories. 1998. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210814140425/https://www.justice.gov.nt.ca/en/files/legislation/official-languages/official-languages.a.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on August 14, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Lorimer. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-88862-931-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-88862-931-9"><bdi>978-0-88862-931-9</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240523075417/https://books.google.com/books?id=sPXVRynQH5wC&q=Yukon&pg=PP1#v=snippet&q=Yukon&f=false">Archived</a> from the original on May 23, 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 2,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Canada%27s+colonies%3A+a+history+of+the+Yukon+and+Northwest+Territories&rft.pub=Lorimer&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=978-0-88862-931-9&rft.aulast=Coates&rft.aufirst=Kenneth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DsPXVRynQH5wC%26q%3DYukon%26pg%3DPP1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorthwest+Territories" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChoquette1995" class="citation book cs1">Choquette, Robert (1995). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oblateassaultonc0000choq"><i>The Oblate assault on Canada's northwest</i></a></span>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Ottawa_Press" title="University of Ottawa Press">University of Ottawa Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7766-0402-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7766-0402-2"><bdi>978-0-7766-0402-2</bdi></a>. <q>Northwest Territories.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oblate+assault+on+Canada%27s+northwest&rft.pub=University+of+Ottawa+Press&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=978-0-7766-0402-2&rft.aulast=Choquette&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foblateassaultonc0000choq&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorthwest+Territories" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Ecosystem Classification Group, and Northwest Territories. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forestmanagement.enr.gov.nt.ca/forest_resources/publications/ecoland/3_3_1_Northern_Great_Bear_Plains_HS_Level_III.pdf">Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged December 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></i>. 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Capital</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_8" title="Treaty 8">Treaty 8</a> <small>(1899)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_11" title="Treaty 11">Treaty 11</a> <small>(1921)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvialuit_Final_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Inuvialuit Final Agreement">Inuvialuit</a> <small>(1984)</small></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gwich%27in_Comprehensive_Land_Claim_Agreement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (page does not exist)">Gwich'in</a> <small>(1992)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahtu_Dene_and_Metis_Comprehensive_Land_Claim_Agreement" title="Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement">Sahtu</a> <small>(1993)</small></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tlicho_Agreement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tlicho Agreement (page does not exist)">Tłįchǫ</a> <small>(2003)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deh_Cho_Region" class="mw-redirect" title="Deh Cho Region">Deh Cho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvik_Region" title="Inuvik Region">Inuvik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Slave_Region" title="North Slave Region">North Slave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahtu_Region" title="Sahtu Region">Sahtu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Slave_Region" title="South Slave Region">South Slave</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Flag_of_Nunavut.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Flag_of_Nunavut.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Flag_of_Nunavut.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nunavut.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="675" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Capital</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iqaluit" title="Iqaluit">Iqaluit</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nunavut_Land_Claims_Agreement" title="Nunavut Land Claims Agreement">Nunavut Land Claims Agreement</a> <small>(1993)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kitikmeot_Region" title="Kitikmeot Region">Kitikmeot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kivalliq_Region" title="Kivalliq Region">Kivalliq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qikiqtaaluk_Region" title="Qikiqtaaluk Region">Qikiqtaaluk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_Yukon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Yukon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_Yukon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Yukon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_Yukon.svg/46px-Flag_of_Yukon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2800" data-file-height="1400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">Yukon</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Capital</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Whitehorse" title="Whitehorse">Whitehorse</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yukon_Land_Claims" title="Yukon Land Claims">Yukon Land Claims</a> <small>(1990-ongoing)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other northern regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Slave_Lake" title="Slave Lake">Slave Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_8" title="Treaty 8">Treaty 8</a> <small>(1899)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northern_British_Columbia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Northern British Columbia (page does not exist)">Northern British Columbia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Communities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prince_George,_British_Columbia" title="Prince George, British Columbia">Prince George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_St._John,_British_Columbia" title="Fort St. John, British Columbia">Fort St. John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrace,_British_Columbia" title="Terrace, British Columbia">Terrace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Rupert,_British_Columbia" title="Prince Rupert, British Columbia">Prince Rupert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawson_Creek" title="Dawson Creek">Dawson Creek</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_8" title="Treaty 8">Treaty 8</a> <small>(1899)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_Treaty_Process" title="British Columbia Treaty Process">British Columbia Treaty Process</a> <small>(1993-ongoing)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Manitoba" title="Northern Manitoba">Northern Manitoba</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Communities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thompson,_Manitoba" title="Thompson, Manitoba">Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pas" title="The Pas">The Pas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flin_Flon" title="Flin Flon">Flin Flon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norway_House" title="Norway House">Norway House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Churchill,_Manitoba" title="Churchill, 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Marie, Ontario">Sault Ste. Marie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bay,_Ontario" title="North Bay, Ontario">North Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timmins" title="Timmins">Timmins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenora" title="Kenora">Kenora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Nipissing" title="West Nipissing">West Nipissing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliot_Lake" title="Elliot Lake">Elliot Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Frances" title="Fort Frances">Fort Frances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapuskasing" title="Kapuskasing">Kapuskasing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dryden,_Ontario" title="Dryden, Ontario">Dryden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_3" title="Treaty 3">Treaty 3</a> <small>(1873)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_9" title="Treaty 9">Treaty 9</a> <small>(1905-06, 1929-30)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Quebec" title="Northern Quebec">Northern Quebec</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Communities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chibougamau" title="Chibougamau">Chibougamau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chisasibi" title="Chisasibi">Chisasibi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuujjuaq" title="Kuujjuaq">Kuujjuaq</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Bay_and_Northern_Quebec_Agreement" title="James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement">James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement</a> <small>(1975)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nunavik" title="Nunavik">Nunavik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eeyou_Istchee" title="Eeyou Istchee">Eeyou Istchee</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Saskatchewan" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Saskatchewan">Northern Saskatchewan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Communities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Ronge" title="La Ronge">La Ronge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Loche" title="La Loche">La Loche</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Treaties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_6" title="Treaty 6">Treaty 6</a> <small>(1889)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_8" title="Treaty 8">Treaty 8</a> <small>(1899)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_10" title="Treaty 10">Treaty 10</a> <small>(1906)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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href="/w/index.php?title=Region_4,_Unorganized_Northwest_Territories&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Region 4, Unorganized Northwest Territories (page does not exist)">Unorganized</a></small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Region_5,_Northwest_Territories" title="Region 5, Northwest Territories">Region 5</a> <small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Region_5,_Unorganized_Northwest_Territories&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Region 5, Unorganized Northwest Territories (page does not exist)">Unorganized</a></small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Region_6,_Northwest_Territories" title="Region 6, Northwest Territories">Region 6</a> <small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Region_6,_Unorganized_Northwest_Territories&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Region 6, Unorganized Northwest Territories (page does not exist)">Unorganized</a></small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Census_geographic_units_of_Canada" title="Census geographic units of Canada">Former census divisions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith_Region,_Northwest_Territories" title="Fort Smith Region, Northwest Territories">Fort Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvik_Region,_Northwest_Territories_(former_census_division)" title="Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories (former census division)">Inuvik</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dehcho_Region" title="Dehcho Region">Dehcho Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories">Municipalities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Liard" title="Fort Liard">Fort Liard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Simpson" title="Fort Simpson">Fort Simpson</a> (regional office)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Marie_River" title="Jean Marie River">Jean Marie River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahanni_Butte" title="Nahanni Butte">Nahanni Butte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sambaa_K%27e" title="Sambaa K'e">Sambaa K'e</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrigley,_Northwest_Territories" title="Wrigley, Northwest Territories">Wrigley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Inuvik_Region" title="Inuvik Region">Inuvik Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Municipalities14" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Municipalities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aklavik" title="Aklavik">Aklavik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_McPherson,_Northwest_Territories" title="Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories">Fort McPherson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuvik" title="Inuvik">Inuvik</a> (regional office)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paulatuk" title="Paulatuk">Paulatuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachs_Harbour" title="Sachs Harbour">Sachs Harbour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsiigehtchic" title="Tsiigehtchic">Tsiigehtchic</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/What%C3%AC" title="Whatì">Whatì</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a> (regional office and territorial capital) <small>(<a href="/wiki/N%27Dilo" class="mw-redirect" title="N'Dilo">N'Dilo</a>)</small></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dettah" title="Dettah">Dettah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutselk%27e" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutselk'e">Lutselk'e</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sahtu_Region" title="Sahtu Region">Sahtu Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Municipalities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deline" class="mw-redirect" title="Deline">Deline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Good_Hope" title="Fort Good Hope">Fort Good Hope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Wells" title="Norman Wells">Norman Wells</a> (regional office)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulita" title="Tulita">Tulita</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colville_Lake,_Northwest_Territories" title="Colville Lake, Northwest Territories">Colville Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/South_Slave_Region" title="South Slave Region">South Slave Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Municipalities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enterprise,_Northwest_Territories" title="Enterprise, Northwest Territories">Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Providence" title="Fort Providence">Fort Providence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Resolution" title="Fort Resolution">Fort Resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Smith,_Northwest_Territories" title="Fort Smith, Northwest Territories">Fort Smith</a> (regional office)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hay_River,_Northwest_Territories" title="Hay River, Northwest Territories">Hay River</a> (regional office)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hay_River_Reserve" title="Hay River Reserve">Hay River Reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kakisa" title="Kakisa">Kakisa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Weather stations<br /><small>(outside of communities)</small></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Parry" title="Cape Parry">Cape Parry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Patrick_Island" title="Prince Patrick Island">Mould Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachs_Harbour" title="Sachs Harbour">Sachs Harbour Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuktoyaktuk" title="Tuktoyaktuk">Tuktoyaktuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories_Power_Corporation" title="Northwest Territories Power Corporation">Yellowknife Hydro</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_mines_in_the_Northwest_Territories" title="List of mines in the Northwest Territories">Mine sites</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Proposed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gahcho_Kue_Diamond_Mine_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="Gahcho Kue Diamond Mine Project">Gahcho Kue Diamond Mine Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thor_Lake" title="Thor Lake">Thor Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Operating</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cantung_Mine" title="Cantung Mine">Cantung Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diavik_Diamond_Mine" title="Diavik Diamond Mine">Diavik Diamond Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekati_Diamond_Mine" title="Ekati Diamond Mine">Ekati Diamond Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snap_Lake_Diamond_Mine" title="Snap Lake Diamond Mine">Snap Lake Diamond Mine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaulieu_Mine" title="Beaulieu Mine">Beaulieu Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burwash_Mine" title="Burwash Mine">Burwash Mine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camlaren_Mine" 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