0 a territory (= a large area of a country that has some local government but less independence than a province or a state) of northwestern Canada, whose capital city is Yellowknife:
Ellesmere Island is an Arctic island in Northwest Territories, Canada, separated from Greenland by the Nares Strait.
The Gwitchin nation comprises more than 7,500 people in 19 villages and towns spread across Alaska, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
The birds make an annual trek thousands of miles from Canada's Northwest Territories to the Texas coast.
