- AREA: 1,171,918 -sq. km./ 780,500 sq mi, 12% of the total area of Canada
- Water:
Great Bear Lake is 31,328 sq km, 8th largest in the worldGreat Slave Lake, 28,568 sq km, 10th largest in the world
Mackenzie River, 4,241 km, longest in Canada
- POP: 42,000
- Official Languages: Chipewyan, Cree, Dogrib, Gwich’in, Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun and Inuinnaqtun), North and South Slavey, French, English
- Capital: Yellowknife
- Average Temperatures:
Yellowknife Summer: 16.5C, 61.7FWinter: -27.9C, -18.2F
- Important Industries: Mining: diamonds, oil & gas
- Terratorial Bird: Gyrfalcon
- Terratorial Fish: Arctic Grayling
- Official Gem: Diamond
- Official Mineral: Gold
- Terratorial Flower: Mountain Avens
- Terratorial Tree: Tamarack