Definitions of Nunavut
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an Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago“Nunavut is the homeland of the Inuit people”example of:district, dominion, territorial dominion, territorya region marked off for administrative or other purposes
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