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Nunavut

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Noun

1. nunavut

an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago

Example Sentences:
'Nunavut is the homeland of the Inuit people'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nunavut

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noun
a territory of NW Canada, formed in 1999 from part of the Northwest Territories as a semi-autonomous region for the Inuit; includes Baffin Island and Ellesmere Island. Capital: Iqaluit. Pop: 31 906 (2011 est). Area: 2 093 190 sq km (808 185 sq miles)

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Nunavut

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territory of N Canada: 770,000 sq mi (1,994,292 sq km); pop. 25,000; cap. Iqaluit (former name, Frobisher Bay)
abbrev. NU

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Nunavut

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Abbr. NU A territory of northern Canada including part of the mainland west of Hudson Bay and most of the Arctic Archipelago. Primarily inhabited and controlled by the Inuit, it was formed from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories in 1999. Iqaluit is the capital.

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