| | Nunavut -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | If Nunavut were a sovereign nation, it would be the least densely populated in the world: nearby (The largest island in the world; between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans; a self-governing province of Denmark) Greenland, for example, has almost the same area and twice the population. |
 | | Nunavut means our land in (additional info and facts about Inuktitut) Inuktitut, the language of the (A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')) Inuit. |
 | | Nunavut's small and sparse population makes it unlikely the territory will be granted provincial status in the foreseeable future, although this may change when and if the (A territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s) Yukon, which is only marginally larger in population, becomes a province. |
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