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2. Nunavik - Wikipedia

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   Covering a land area of 443,684.71 km 2 (171,307.62 sq mi) north of the 55th parallel, it is the homeland of the Inuit of Quebec and part of the wider Inuit Nunangat. Almost all of the 14,045 inhabitants ( 2021 census ) of the region, of whom 90% are Inuit, [1] live in fourteen northern villages on the coast of Nunavik and in the Cree reserved ...

3. Indigenous peoples in Quebec - Wikipedia

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   Indigenous peoples in Quebec (Quebec French: peuples autochtones du Québec) total eleven distinct ethnic groups. The one Inuit community and ten First Nations communities number 141,915 people and account for approximately two per cent of the population of Quebec , Canada.

4. Inuit - Wikipedia

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   Inuit (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t / IN-ew-it; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

5. List of northern villages and Inuit reserved lands in Quebec

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   A "northern village" is an Inuit community; these are all located north of the 55th parallel in the territory administered by the Kativik Regional Government. These have a separate legal status from Cree villages (code=VC), Naskapi villages (code=VK), or ordinary villages (code=VL). Note that most (all but two) northern villages have a ...

6. Salluit - Wikipedia

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   Salluit ( Inuktitut: ᓴᓪᓗᐃᑦ, "the thin ones") [6] is the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, Canada, located on Sugluk Inlet close to the Hudson Strait and was formerly known as Sugluk. Its population was 1,483 in the Canada 2016 Census and the population centre had 1,075 people. [3] [4] It is not accessible by road, but by ...

7. Kuujjuaq - Wikipedia

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   Kuujjuaq ( [kuːtjuɑq]; Inuktitut: ᑰᑦᔪᐊᖅ or ᑰᔾᔪᐊᖅ, "Great River"), [5] formerly known as Fort Chimo and by other names, is a former Hudson's Bay Company outpost at the mouth of the Koksoak River on Ungava Bay that has become the largest northern village ( Inuit community) in the Nunavik region of Quebec, Canada.

8. Inuktitut - Wikipedia

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   Quebec is home to roughly 15,800 Inuit, nearly all of whom live in Nunavik. According to the 2021 census, 80.9% of Quebec Inuit speak Inuktitut. The Nunavik dialect (Nunavimmiutitut, ᓄᓇᕕᒻᒥᐅᑎᑐᑦ) is relatively close to the South Baffin dialect, but not identical. Because of the political and physical boundary between Nunavik and ...

9. Inuit Nunangat - Wikipedia

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   Demographics. As of the 2021 Canadian census the population of Inuit Nunangat was 58,220 an increase of 2.9 per cent over the 2016 census population of 56,585. The Indigenous population is 50,500 or 89.24 per cent of the total population, of which 48,695 (83.63 per cent) are Inuit. [1] [21]