Yellowknife
a city in and the capital of the northwest territories, in n central canada, on great slave lake.
a territory of canada lying n of 60 degrees n and extending e from the yukon territory to nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km)
capital: yellowknife.
noun
a city in n canada, capital of the northwest territories on great slave lake. pop: 16 055 (2001)
plural noun
a territory of nw canada including part of victoria island and several other islands of the arctic; comprised over a third of canada’s total area until nunavut became a separate territory in 1999: rich mineral resources. pop: 42 810 (2004 est). area: 2 082 910 sq km (804 003 sq miles) nwt
note: in 1998, canada carved a homeland for the inuit people, known as nunavut (“our land”), from the northwest territories.
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