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Iqaluit

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capital of Nunavut, Canada, in the E part
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Iqaluit

The capital and largest community of Nunavut, Canada, on Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay. The site of an airbase built by the United States in World War II, it became the capital of Nunavut in 2001.x
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Proper noun
  1. The capital of the territory of Nunavut, Canada.
Origin

From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ (iqaluit, “place of fish”), plural of ᐃᖃᓗᒃ (iqaluk, “fish”).

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