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"
A territory in northern Canada which has Iqaluit as its capital.
"Nunavut is a vast territory in northern Canada that was established with Iqaluit as its capital."
Nunavut comes from the Inuktitut word meaning "our land." It is related to similar terms in Greenlandic and other languages that also mean "our country" or "our land."