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City in Nunavut, Canada
Iqaluit
ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ (Inuktitut syllabics)
City
From top left: Cityscape from Joamie Hill, Iqaluit waterfront, Aurora borealis at night, Iqaluit Airport, St. Jude's Anglican Cathedral
P.J. Akeeagok Janet Brewster George Hickes Adam Lightstone
• MP
Lori Idlout
Area
(2021)[5][6]
• Total
51.58 km2 (19.92 sq mi)
• Population Centre
10.48 km2 (4.05 sq mi)
Elevation
[7]
30 m (110 ft)
Population
(2021)[5][6]
• Total
7,429
• Density
144.0/km2 (373/sq mi)
• Population Centre
7,082
• Population Centre density
667.0/km2 (1,728/sq mi)
Demonym
Iqalummiut
Time zone
UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)
UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Canadian Postal code
X0A 0A1, X0A 0H0, X0A 1H0, X0A 2H0, X0A 3H0
Area code
867
Telephone Exchanges
222 (mobile), 975, 979
NTS Map
25N10 Hill Island
GNBC Code
OATRP[1]
Website
iqaluit.ca
Iqaluit (/iˈkæluɪt/ee-KAL-oo-it; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ, [iqaluit], lit.'place of many fish';[8]French:[i.ka.lu.it]) is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is the territory's largest community and its only city. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the large bay on the coast on which the city is situated. The northernmost city in Canada, its traditional Inuktitut name was restored in 1987.
In 1999, Iqaluit was designated the capital of Nunavut after the division of the Northwest Territories into two separate territories. Before this event, Iqaluit was a small city and not well known outside the Canadian Arctic or Canada, with population and economic growth highly limited. This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensive imported supplies, as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road or rail, and only has ship connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada. The city has a polar climate, influenced by the cold deep waters of the Labrador Current just off Baffin Island—this makes the city of Iqaluit cold, although it is well south of the Arctic Circle.
As of the 2021 Canadian census, the population was 7,429[5] (population centre: 6,991[6]), a decrease of 4.0 percent from the 2016 census. Iqaluit has the lowest population of any capital city in Canada. Inhabitants of Iqaluit are called Iqalummiut (singular: Iqalummiuq).
^ ab"Iqaluit". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
^"Municipal Election Results 2019–2020" (PDF). Elections Nunavut. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
^"2021 General Election" (PDF). Elections Nunavut. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
^"Iqaluit City Council". Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
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^ abc"Census Profile, 2016 Census Iqaluit [Population centre]". Statistics Canada. 2021. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
^Elevation at airport. Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 16 July 2020 to 0901Z 10 September 2020.
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Iqaluit (/iˈkæluɪt/ ee-KAL-oo-it; Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ, [iqaluit], lit. 'place of many fish'; French: [i.ka.lu.it]) is the capital of the Canadian...
Iqaluit Airport (Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᖕᓂ ᒥᑦᑕᕐᕕᒃ) (IATA: YFB, ICAO: CYFB) serves Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and is located adjacent to the city. It hosts scheduled...
well as North America's second-largest (after Greenland). The capital Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), on Baffin Island in the east, was chosen by a...
Iqaluit Kangiqtunga (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ ᑲᖏᖅᑐᖓ) formerly Shaftesbury Inlet is a body of water in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It...
/ 68°N 70°W / 68; -70 (Baffin Island). It also contains the city of Iqaluit (with a population of around 7,000), which is the capital of Nunavut. The...
smaller islands in between. The regional centre, and territorial capital, is Iqaluit (population 7,740). The Qikiqtaaluk Region spans the northernmost, easternmost...
Iqaluit Centre was a territorial electoral district (riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Canada. The riding consisted of the community of...
Iqaluit West was a territorial electoral district (riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Canada. The riding consists of the community of Iqaluit...
"where birds nest") is an 18-hole disc golf course in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, located South of Iqaluit Airport, between Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park...
Iqaluit East was a territorial electoral district (riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Canada. The riding consisted of the easterly portions...
utility, jeeps and full-size vans. A wide range of vehicles can be found in Iqaluit, where the government tends to do most of its business and the road system...
The Iqaluit Public Transit system operated from July 2003 to January 2005 to provide public transportation in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. Mounting costs...
for the City of Iqaluit, which is the territory's capital. The largest municipality by population in Nunavut is the capital city, Iqaluit, with 7,429 residents...
Iqaluit City Council (Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᐸᐅᔭᐃᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᖏᑦ, romanized: Iqaluit Nunalipaujait Katimajingit) is the governing body of the city of Iqaluit, Nunavut...
Air Nunavut, trading as Smooth Air, is an airline based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. It is the only local and Inuit-owned air carrier in the eastern Arctic...
Uummannaq Island. The first international flights from Nuuk Airport were to Iqaluit in Nunavut, Canada. This connection was closed 13 years later, and for...
capital Iqaluit. This has in recent years made it a much more widely heard dialect, since a great deal of Inuktitut media originates in Iqaluit. Some linguists...
and second-largest settlement in Nunavut, after the territorial capital, Iqaluit. On the northwestern Hudson Bay, between Chesterfield Inlet and Arviat...
support employees in Yellowknife. In addition it has regional offices in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It also has an operations...
territory of Nunavut. Voters were given the options of either Iqaluit or Rankin Inlet. Iqaluit was chosen by 60.23% of voters. The plebiscite was run under...
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