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ID: 7024197
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Nunavut (territory)  Nunavut (territory)

Coordinates:
Lat: 70 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 70.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 090 00 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -90.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Region comprising ancestral home of the Inuit of the Central and Eastern Arctic; government assumed repsonsibilities from Northwest Territories in 1999, with transfer of administration programs, such as public housing and health care, to be completed by 2009.

Names:
Nunavut (preferred,C,V)  ............ "our land" in the Inuktitut language
Territory of Nunavut (C,O,display)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nunavut (territory)  ............  Nunavut (territory) (P)

Place Types:
territory (preferred, C)  ............  established on April 1, 1999
first level subdivision (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Nunavut..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NPC, Nunavut Planning Commission (1999) accessed 6 April 1999
.................  USBGN Bulletin 20 (1999) 1
Territory of Nunavut..........  [VP]
...................................  NPC, Nunavut Planning Commission (1999) accessed 6 April 1999
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NPC, Nunavut Planning Commission (1999) accessed 6 April 1999
..................  USBGN Bulletin 20 (1999) 1
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Government of Nunavut (2003-) 5 August 2004

 

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