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Encyclopedia > Baffin Region, Nunavut
Baffin Region of Nunavut

Baffin Region (Inuktitut: Qikiqtaaluk ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) is a region of Nunavut. It consists of Baffin Island, the Belcher Islands, Akimiski Island, Mansel Island, Prince Charles Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island, Cornwallis Island, Bathurst Island, Amund Ringes Island, Ellef Ringes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Ellesmere Island, the Melville Peninsula, the eastern part of Melville Island, and the northern parts of Prince of Wales Island, and Somerset Island, plus smaller islands in between. The regional seat is Iqaluit.


Before 1999, Baffin Region was part of the Northwest Territories.

Contents
1 Communities
2 Attractions
3 Protected Areas
4 Demographics
5 Surrounding Counties

Communities

  • Settlements
    • Nanisivik
  • Unorganized Areas
    • Baffin, Unorganized

Attractions

  • Astro Hill Complex (Iqaluit)
  • Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum (Iqaluit)
  • Nunavut Legislature Building (Iqaluit)
  • Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre (Iqaluit)

Protected Areas

  • Auyuittuq National Park
  • Katannilil
  • Kekerten
  • Mallikjuak
  • Pitsutinu-Tungavik
  • Qilalukat
  • Quammaarviit
  • Rotary Club Day Park
  • Sirmilik National Park
  • Sylvia Grinnel

Demographics

(Statistics Canada, 2001)

  • Population: 14,372
  • Population change (1996_2001): 8.7
  • Dwellings: 4,560
  • Area (sq. km): 1,023,570.49
  • Density (per sq. km.): 0.0
  • National rank in terms of population: 257
  • Territorial rank in terms of population: 1

Surrounding Counties



  Results from FactBites:
 
Nunavut - MSN Encarta (1493 words)
Nunavut is the native homeland of the Inuit, who make up nearly 85 percent of the total population.
Nunavut was created as part of a long process that originated with the Canadian government’s decision in the early 1970s to negotiate settlements with aboriginal groups that file land claims.
Nunavut is in the northeastern part of Canada; Greenland is to the east of it and the Northwest Territories to the west.
Nunavut - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (1344 words)
The capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) on Baffin Island in the east.
Nunavut is both the least populated and the largest of the provinces and territorities of Canada.
Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of Keewatin (which had differing boundaries from the Keewatin/Kivalliq regions), the majority of the District of Franklin and a small portion of the District of Mackenzie.
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