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About Northwest TerritoriesThe Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada and as such enjoys lesser rights than the provinces. The capital of the territories is Yellowknife, also the largest territorial city and the territorial metro area. The territory joined the Canadian federation on July 15th 1870, with ceding of territory by Hudson’s Bay Company to Canada.
Gyrfalcon is the official bird emblem of the Northwest Territories. The mineral emblem of the territories is gold. Mountain avens has been adopted as the official flower of the Territories. The tamarack is the official territorial tree of Northwest Territories and diamond is the official gemstone symbol of the territory. Finally the arctic grayling is the official fish emblem.
The Northwest Territories has a territorial area of 1,171,918 Sq/Km or 452,652 Sq miles. Northwest Territories is bounded by Yukon in the west and Nunavut lies to its east. The province of British Columbia is located in the southwest while Alberta and Saskatchewan lie to its south. The highest point in the territories is the Mount Nirvana which stands at 2773 mts. or 9098 ft and the lowest point is sea level at Beaufort Sea.
The weather conditions in Northwest Territories greatly differ in-between seasons. The mainland has a subarctic climate while the islands have polar climatic conditions. Cool and short summers and harsh winters which last long are the characteristic feature of the place. The summer time temperature usually in high is 20’s degree Celsius, with temperatures of about -40 in the winter while discounting the wind chill factor.
As of April 2011 the population of Northwest Territories was 43,505 as against 43,759 in the previous year. The territorial population declined by 0.5% over previous year. More than 50% of the territorial population is of Aboriginal origin. In July 2010 census the Aboriginal people accounted for 22,123 out of total 2010 population of 43,757.
In 2010 The GDP of Northwest Territories was 3,274 million dollars. As of July 2011 the territories had an increased inflation rate of 3.4%. With C$76,000 Northwest Territories had the highest per capita GDP of all the Canadian provinces in 2009. Resource mining and extraction is the major economy activity for the region, they include gold, diamonds, natural gas and petroleum. The diamond related activities contribute to about 25% of the territorial GDP. Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton which are one of the largest resource mining companies of the world operate here. As of 2010 the region was the source for 28.5% diamonds produced by Rio Tinto. |
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