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Territories of Canada

NUNAVUT (NU) YUKON (YT)
NUNAVUT YUKON

MOTTO: Nunavut sanginivut (in Inuktitut)
Nunavut, our strength JOINED CANADA: 1898
JOINED CANADA: 1999 CAPITAL: Whitehorse †
POPULATION: 35,874
CAPITAL: Iqaluit 2
POPULATION: 35,944 † SIZE: Smallest territory (482,443 km )
SIZE: Largest territory (2,093,190 km )
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FLOWER: BIRD: TREE: MINERAL:
FLOWER: BIRD: ANIMAL: Fireweed Common Subalpine Lazulite
Purple Rock Canadian Raven Fir
Saxifrage Ptarmigan Inuit Dog
CANADA IS COOL! The world’s smallest desert,
CANADA IS COOL! An inuksuk, like the red the Carcross Desert, is in Yukon. It is less than
one on the Nunavut flag, is a stone marker 260 hectares.
used for communication between people. It is
traditionally used to mark sacred places and
provide directions for land travellers.

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (NT)
TERRITOIRES DU NORD-OUEST
JOINED CANADA: 1870
CAPITAL: Yellowknife
POPULATION: 41,786 †
SIZE: Second-largest territory (1,346,106 km )
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CANADA IS COOL! In winter, the rivers and lakes
of the Northwest Territories have ice up to a metre FLOWER: BIRD: TREE: MINERAL:
thick and can be used as roads. The world’s longest Mountain Gyrfalcon Tamarack Gold
ice road is in the Northwest Territories. Avens Larch
It is more than 568 kilometres long!

R–16 † Population source: www.statcan.gc.ca (Census 2016)