The Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories
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| Motto: (No official motto) | |||
| Confederation | July 15, 1870 (Hudson's Bay Company cedes territory to Canada) (6th) | ||
| Capital | Yellowknife | ||
| Largest city | Yellowknife | ||
| Largest metro | Yellowknife | ||
| Government | |||
| • Commissioner | Gerald W. Kisoun (acting) | ||
| • Premier | Bob McLeod (consensus government) | ||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories | ||
| Federal representation | (in Canadian Parliament) | ||
| House seats | 1 of 338 (0.3%) | ||
| Senate seats | 1 of 105 (1%) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 1,346,106 km2 (519,734 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 1,183,085 km2 (456,792 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 163,021 km2 (62,943 sq mi) 12.1% | ||
| Area rank | Ranked 3rd | ||
| 13.5% of Canada | |||
| Population (2016) | |||
| • Total | 41,786 | ||
| • Estimate (2017 Q1) | 44,263 | ||
| • Rank | Ranked 11th | ||
| • Density | 0/km2 (0/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Northwest Territorian | ||
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| GDP | |||
| • Rank | 11th | ||
| • Total (2011) | C$4.791 billion | ||
| • Per capita | C$108,394 (1st) | ||
| Time zone | UTC-7 | ||
| Postal abbr. | NT | ||
| Postal code prefix | X0, X1 (Yellowknife) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | CA-NT | ||
| Flower | Mountain avens | ||
| Tree | Tamarack Larch | ||
| Bird | Gyrfalcon | ||
| Website | www |
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The Northwest Territories (also known as NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately 1,144,000 km2 (442,000 sq mi) and a 2011 population of 41,462, it is the second largest and most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2016 is 44,291.Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.
The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-West Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed on April 1, 1999, when the territory was subdivided to create Nunavut to the east, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act. While Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is both boreal forest (taiga), and tundra, and its most northern regions form part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
The Northwest Territories are bordered by Canada's two other territories, Nunavut to the east and Yukon to the west, and by the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the south.
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