Place details
Place nameNunavut
Other namesTerritory of Nunavut
CountryCanada
Latitude70
Longitude-90
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
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.