Nunavut

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Nunavut is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated from the Northwest Territories in 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which provided this territory to the Inuit for self-government. The boundaries were drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland, known as Newfoundland and Labrador since 2001, was admitted in 1949. Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada and most of the Arctic Archipelago. Its vast territory makes it the fifth-largest country subdivision in the world. Nunavut's capital and Canada's smallest capital by population, Iqaluit, formerly "Frobisher Bay", on Baffin Island in the east, was chosen by the 1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite. Other major communities include the regional centres of Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Nunavut includes Ellesmere Island in the far north, the eastern and southern...

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