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NUNAVUT
Canada’s
True North
Experience the spirit of the Arctic, a wild and
dramatic landscape of glaciers, treeless tundra,
mountains and oceans that remain frozen most
of the year. Visit remote towns and meet local
Inuit who make up 84 percent of the population
of Nunavut, “our land” in Inuktitut, and experi-
ence their culture in this unique and little-known
territory—Canada’s newest.
40,721
Iqaluit
www.destinationnunavut.ca
Flights to Nunavut depart from Ottawa, Montréal,
Edmonton, Winnipeg, Churchill and Yellowknife
The size of Western Europe, Nunavut
is the biggest and least populated of
Canada’s provinces and territories, 2,093,190
sq. km (808,185 sq. mi.). Covering one-fifth
of the country’s total area, reaching almost
to the North Pole, the population could fit
into an average sports stadium 52.7 sq. km
(19.44 sq. mi.).
TRADITIONS LIVE ON
While Nunavut’s capital of Iqaluit is a
modern town with a population of 9,752, the
25 other communities scattered across the
territory are much smaller, some home to
just a few hundred residents. No roads link
Nunavut’s communities, nor are there roads
connecting Nunavut to the rest of Canada.
In the remote hamlets, life is often still
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