Nunavut is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993.
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 is bordered by the Northwest Territories to the west, the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to the south, and Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea to the east.
Nunavut is the largest political subdivision of Canada, comprising one fifth of the country's land mass and covering 1,994,000 sq km (769,684 sq mi).
The territory is a self-governing homeland for the Inuit, the original inhabitants of the region.
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