The Communities of Nunavut

Iqaluit is the capital and only city of Nunavut, and by far its largest community. It is the seat of the territorial government and Legislative Assembly and the administrative, transportation, and service hub for the entire territory.

Igloolik is one of the larger Baffin communities and a recognized centre of Inuit cultural and artistic life, with deep roots in traditional knowledge.

Pond Inlet is a large northern Baffin hamlet set among mountains, glaciers, and rich marine wildlife.

Pangnirtung is a scenic Inuit hamlet at the base of dramatic fiord country, and a well-known centre for tapestry weaving and printmaking.

Kinngait, formerly Cape Dorset, is internationally recognized as the centre of Inuit printmaking and stone carving.

Clyde River is an Inuit hamlet on the east coast of Baffin Island with a strong land-based culture and language-retention record.

Sanikiluaq is Nunavut’s southernmost community, the only one in the Belcher Islands, and geographically closer to Quebec than to Baffin Island.

Arctic Bay is a predominantly Inuit hamlet on the northern coast of Baffin Island, known for its sheltered harbour and traditional harvesting economy.

Sanirajak, formerly Hall Beach, is a Foxe Basin hamlet with a strong traditional harvesting economy.

Qikiqtarjuaq is an island hamlet off eastern Baffin Island, surrounded by some of the richest marine wildlife waters in the Arctic.

Kimmirut is a small Inuit hamlet on the south coast of Baffin Island, historically a whaling and trading site and known for carving.

Resolute is one of Canada’s northernmost communities and a key logistics staging point for High Arctic science and expeditions.

Grise Fiord is Canada’s northernmost civilian community and one of its smallest. Its Inuktitut name, Aujuittuq, means "the place that never thaws."

Rankin Inlet is the largest community in the Kivalliq region and its administrative, transportation, and health hub, and the second-largest community in Nunavut.

Arviat is the southernmost mainland community in Nunavut and one of the largest in the Kivalliq, known for strong retention of Inuit language and culture.

Baker Lake is Nunavut’s only inland community, sitting near the geographic centre of Canada and long a meeting place of inland Caribou Inuit.

Naujaat, formerly Repulse Bay, sits directly on the Arctic Circle at the north end of the Kivalliq region.

Coral Harbour is the only community on Southampton Island, at the north end of Hudson Bay, with abundant marine and bird wildlife.

Whale Cove is a small Hudson Bay hamlet established in the late 1950s to resettle inland Caribou Inuit families.

Chesterfield Inlet is the oldest community in the Kivalliq region, developed around an early trading and mission post.

Cambridge Bay is the largest community in the Kitikmeot region and its administrative and transportation hub, located on Victoria Island along the Northwest Passage.

Kugluktuk is the westernmost community in Nunavut, near the Northwest Territories boundary, at the mouth of the Coppermine River.

Gjoa Haven is the only community on King William Island and takes its name from Roald Amundsen’s ship, the Gjøa, which wintered there.

Kugaaruk, formerly Pelly Bay, is a remote hamlet on the northern mainland coast with a strongly traditional harvesting economy.

Taloyoak is the northernmost community on the Canadian mainland, on the Boothia Peninsula, with a heritage of Netsilik Inuit harvesting.