Region 5 is the name of a

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, one of six in the

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. It was introduced in the 2011 census, along with Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, resulting in the abolition of the former census divisions of Fort Smith Region and

Inuvik Region The Inuvik Region or ''Beaufort Delta Region'' is one of List of regions of the Northwest Territories, five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada. According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of eig ...

(the latter not to be confused with the modern-day administrative region of the same name). Unlike in some other provinces, census divisions do not reflect the organization of local government in the Northwest Territories. These areas exist solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government of their own. Its territory coincides roughly with much of the South Slave Region administrative region; however, it does not include the extreme western part of South Slave Region centered on Fort Providence, west of

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. The 2011 census reported a population of 6,907 and a land area of . Main languages in the Region include English (86.4%),

Dene The Dene people () are an Indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal, subarctic and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages and it is the common Athabaskan word for "people". The term ...

(4.0%), French (2.2%),

Slavey The Slavey (also Awokanak, Slave, and South Slavey) are a First Nations in Canada, First Nations group of Indigenous peoples in Canada. They speak the Slavey language, a part of the Athabaskan languages. Part of the Dene people, their homeland ...

(1.6%) and

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(1.5%).

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

, Region 5 of the Northwest Territories had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Communities

Geographic hierarchy: Region 5 (Region)
/ref> *Towns ** Fort Smith ** Hay River *Hamlets ** Fort Resolution *Settlements **

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Łutselk'e Łutselkʼe (, Dëne Sųłıné Yatıé: ; "place of the ", the cisco, a type of small fish), also spelt ''Łutsël Kʼé'', is a "designated authority" in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. The community is on the south ...

** Reliance *Indian reserves **Salt Plains

References

{{coord, 60.0053, N, 111.8906, W, source:wikidata, display=title South Slave Region Census divisions of the Canadian territories 2011 establishments in the Northwest Territories