0 a territory (= a large area of a country that has some local government but less independence than a province or a state) of northern Canada, whose capital city is Iqaluit:
Nunavut Quest, an annual dog-sled race, began in 1999 to celebrate the birth of Nunavut, the new Canadian province belonging to the Inuit people.
The crew will spend two weeks this summer on Devon Island above the Arctic Circle in Nunavut, Canada.
The huge arctic territory of Nunavut is 730,000 square miles, bigger than Alaska and almost three times the size of Texas.
