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Northwest Territories: Quick Facts

Quick Facts

• Capital - Yellowknife
• Motto - Land of the Midnight Sun
• Flower - Mountain Avens
• Entered Confederation - 15 July 1870
• Members of the Legislative Assembly - 19
• Members of Parliament - 1
• Senators - 1
• Population, 2000 - 42,154
• Average annual family income, 1996 - n/a
• Employment rate, 1997 - n/a
• Per capita health expenditures, 1995 - $5,329
• Inflation as measured by the CPI, 1997 - .01
• Average weekly earnings, 1997 - $725.72
• Housing starts, 1997 - n/a
• Provincial sales tax, 1998 - 0%
• Urban population, 1996 - 42.5%
• GDP per capita, 1995 - $35,197
• Land area out of Canada's total area 67,879 - 11.1%

Sources: Statistics Canada, 1999 Canadian Encyclopedia

Cities

Yellowknife is the capital. The population of Yellowknife is 17,275.