Northwest Territories
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The Northwest Territories is a territory in northern Canada. It has 42,944 people living in it on January 1, 2005. It has an area of 1,171,918 square kilometers.
The capital of the Northwest Territories is Yellowknife. Yellowknife was the capital since 1967. The Northwest Territories have many geographical features, like the Great Bear Lake, the Mackenzie River and Nahanni River, which is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Northwest Territories entered Canadian Confederation in 1870. The Hudson's Bay Company gave the land to the Dominion of Canada. The Northwest Territories have one person in the House of Commons and the Canadian Senate. A lot of parts of the Northwest Territories have been given to other provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1999 the eastern part of the Northwest Territories became the territory of Nunavut.
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