The Inuvik Region or ''Beaufort Delta Region'' is one of
five administrative regions in the
Northwest Territories of Canada. According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of eight communities with the regional office situated in
Inuvik.
[Inuvik Region]
/ref> Most of the communities are in the Beaufort Sea area and are a mixture of Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
(Inuvialuit
The Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk; ''the real people'') or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They, like all other Inuit, are descendants of the Thule who migrated eastward from Alaska. Their homelan ...
) and First Nations
First Nations or first peoples may refer to:
* Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area.
Indigenous groups
*First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including:
**First Natio ...
(mostly Gwich'in).
Formerly, there was also a Statistics Canada designated census division named Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, which was abolished in the 2011 Canadian Census. The territorial extent of this census division was somewhat larger than the administrative region of the same name.
Administrative Region communities
The Inuvik Region administrative entity includes the following communities:
References
External links
Inuvik Region at Municipal and Community Affairs
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