Nunavut

Nunavut  French pronunciation: ​[nunavy]) is the most modern, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada. It became separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, through the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims agreement Act,[8] although the bounds have been contemplatively drawn in 1993. The introduction of Nunavut resulted within the first predominant change to Canada's political map because the incorporation of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949.

Nunavut contains a major portion of Northern Canada, and most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its full-size territory makes it the 5th-largest u . s . subdivision in the international, in addition to North america's 2nd-largest (after Greenland). The capital Iqaluit (previously "Frobisher Bay"), on Baffin Island within the east, was selected through the 1995 capital plebiscite. other major groups consist of the nearby centres of Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Nunavut additionally consists of Ellesmere Island to the a long way north, as well as the jap and southern portions of Victoria Island within the west and Akimiski Island in James Bay some distance to the southeast of the relaxation of the territory. it is Canada's simplest geo-political location that isn't always connected to the relaxation of North the usa through toll road.



Nunavut is the largest in location and the second least populous of Canada's provinces and territories. one of the global's maximum remote, sparsely settled regions, it has a populace of 35,944, in most cases Inuit, spread over an area of simply over 1,750,000 km2 (680,000 squaremi), the dimensions of Western Europe. Nunavut is also home to the arena's northernmost completely inhabited vicinity, Alert. A weather station farther down Ellesmere Island, Eureka, has the lowest average annual temperature of any Canadian weather station.