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The Northwest Territories ˌnɔrθˌwɛst ˈtɛrɪtɔəriːz, (NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO) is a federal breadth of Canada.

Located in arctic Canada, the breadth borders Canada's two added territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south. It has a acreage breadth of 1,140,835 aboveboard kilometres (440,000 sq mi) and a citizenry of 41,464 as of the 2006 census, an access of 11.0% from 2001. In 1967 Yellowknife became the basic as a aftereffect of recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.

Geographical appearance accommodate Great Bear Lake, the better basin absolutely aural Canada, Keller Basin and Great Slave Lake, as able-bodied as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni Civic Esplanade Reserve, a civic esplanade and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Territorial islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago accommodate Banks Island, Borden Island, Prince Patrick Island, and genitalia of Victoria Island and Melville Island. The accomplished point is Mount Nirvana abreast the bound with Yukon at an acclivity of 2,773 metres (9,098 ft).

While Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a hardly warmer altitude and is mostly algid forest. About bisected of the breadth is aloft the timberline line.