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Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Yellowknife
Sǫ̀mbak'è
City
City of Yellowknife
Skyline of downtown Yellowknife
Skyline of downtown Yellowknife
Flag of Yellowknife
Flag
Coat of arms of Yellowknife
Coat of arms
Official logo of Yellowknife
Logo
Nickname(s): "YK", "The Knife", "The Blade"
Motto: Multum In Parvo (Latin) (English: Many things in a small place)
Yellowknife is located in Northwest Territories
Yellowknife
Yellowknife
Yellowknife is located in Canada
Yellowknife
Yellowknife
Coordinates: 62°26′32″N 114°23′51″W / 62.44222°N 114.39750°W / 62.44222; -114.39750Coordinates: 62°26′32″N 114°23′51″W / 62.44222°N 114.39750°W / 62.44222; -114.39750
Country Canada
Territory Northwest Territories
Region North Slave Region
Constituencies
Census division Region 6
Established 1934
Incorporation (city) 1 January 1970
Government
 • Type Yellowknife City Council
 • Mayor Mark Heyck
 • Senior Administrative Officer Dennis Kefalas
 • MPs Michael McLeod
 • MLAs
Area (land only)
 • City 136.22 km2 (52.59 sq mi)
 • Land 105.44 km2 (40.71 sq mi)
 • Water 30.78 km2 (11.88 sq mi)
 • Urban 13.09 km2 (5.05 sq mi)
Elevation 206 m (676 ft)
Population (2011) 19,234
 • Density 105.44/km2 (273.1/sq mi)
 • Urban 18,352
 • Urban density 1,402.3/km2 (3,632/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Yellowknifer
Time zone Mountain (MST) (UTC-7)
 • Summer (DST) MDT (UTC-6)
Canadian Postal code X1A
Area code(s) 867
Telephone Exchanges 444 445 446 669 765 766 767 873 920 999
- Living cost 117.5
GNBC Code LBAMG
Website www.yellowknife.ca
Sources:
Department of Municipal and Community Affairs,
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Yellowknife profile at the Legislative Assembly
Canada Flight Supplement
^A 2009 figure based on Edmonton = 100

Yellowknife (English pronunciation: /ˈjɛlnf/; 2011 population: 19,234) is the capital and only city, as well as the largest community in the Northwest Territories (NT or NWT), Canada. It is located on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, approximately 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River. Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after a local Dene tribe once known as the 'Copper Indians' or 'Yellowknife Indians', referred to locally as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, who traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. The current population is ethnically mixed. Of the eleven official languages of the Northwest Territories, five are spoken in significant numbers in Yellowknife: Dene Suline, Dogrib, South and North Slavey, English, and French. In the Dogrib language, the city is known as Sǫ̀mbak'è (Som-ba Kay) ("where the money is").

The Yellowknife settlement is considered to have been founded in 1934, after gold was found in the area, although commercial activity in the present-day waterfront area did not begin until 1936. Yellowknife quickly became the centre of economic activity in the NWT, and was named the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967. As gold production began to wane, Yellowknife shifted from being a mining town to a centre of government services in the 1980s. However, with the discovery of diamonds north of Yellowknife in 1991, this shift has begun to reverse.


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