CommunitiesCommunity ProfilesWelcome to our community profiles! If you are moving to Nunavut for the first time or thinking about moving within Nunavut, these community profiles can help you find out more about where you may be going. Nunavut’s communities are diverse. They range from busy administrative and transportation centres to tiny hamlets of less than five hundred people. But one aspect they all share is their remoteness. Nunavut communities are typically thousands of kilometres apart, without any roads to connect them to each other, or southern Canada. Instead, they are reached via air and sea transportation, with shipping access confined to the short summer season. These community profiles will give you a sense of the social and physical context of each community, the goods and services you will find, as well as many additional resources and a list of local contacts. Our TerritoryNunavut officially became a territory on April 1st, 1999 under the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act. Nunavut is the traditional homeland of the Inuit. Nunavut is the Inuktitut word for "our land." Nunavut consists of about three million square kilometres of tundra, ocean and ice and the territory spans three time zones. But its population is only about 31,000 (2011 Census). Of those people, almost 85 per cent are Inuit. Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, French and English are the official languages of Nunavut. Nunavut is made up of three main regions. These are the Kitikmeot (western Nunavut), the Kivalliq (central Nunavut) & the Qikiqtani (eastern Nunavut). Each region has its own Regional School Operations (RSO). In addition, there is a francophone school board (Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut or CSFN) located in Iqaluit. Map of Nunavut Javascript is required to view this map. ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Français
