Yukon
The Yukon is the westernmost of Canada's three northern territories. It is an area larger than Sweden, but with a population smaller than that of Sweden's 55th largest municipality.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Whitehorse
Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon. It has spectacular scenery, and easy access to the natural splendor and recreational opportunities around it, such as paddling on the Yukon River and hiking, biking, or skiing its many trails.Tombstone Territorial Park
Photo: Steraw04, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rugged mountains that stretch out for kilometres on end in one of the Yukon's most isolated and untouched regions characterize Tombstone Territorial Park.
Destinations
Kluane National Park
Photo: Kevin Teague, CC BY 2.0.
Kluane National Park and Reserve is composed of two parts: a national park and a reserve in the southwest corner of Yukon.
Ivvavik National Park
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ivvavik National Park is a national park of Canada located in Yukon.
Herschel Island
Photo: Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herschel Island, in the Beaufort Sea, lies 5 km off the coast of Yukon in Canada.
Vuntut National Park
Photo: Chris Kyrzyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vuntut National Park is a national park in Yukon. It covers an area of 4,345 km².
Carmacks
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carmacks is a village of 500 people in Yukon. It is the home of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation, a Northern Tutchone-speaking Aboriginal people.
Watson Lake
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Watson Lake is a town of 800 people in southeastern Yukon, close to the British Columbia border.
Haines Junction
Photo: Anthony DeLorenzo, CC BY 2.0.
Haines Junction is a village in southwestern Yukon with a population of 613.
Photo: Pierre Markuse, CC BY 2.0.
Yukon
- Type: State with 33,900 residents
- Description: territory of Canada
- Neighbors: Alaska, British Columbia and Northwest Territories
- Categories: territory of Canada, census division of Canada and locality
- Location: Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude of centre
63.0001° or 63° 0' 1" northLongitude of centre
-136.0025° or 136° 0' 9" westPopulation
33,900Elevation
847 metres (2,779 feet)Abbreviation
YTOpenStreetMap ID
node 305700707OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
6185811Wikidata ID
Q2009Yukon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Yukon
- Albanian: Yukon
- Amharic: ዩካን
- Arabic: Yukon
- Arabic: يوكون
- Armenian: Յուկոն
- Asturian: Yukón
- Azerbaijani: Yukon
- Balinese: Yukon
- Basque: Yukon
- Bavarian: Yukon
- Belarusian: Тэрыторыя Юкан
- Belarusian: Юкан
- Belarusian: Юкон
- Bengali: ইউকন
- Bosnian: Yukon
- Breton: Yukon
- Bulgarian: Юкон
- Burmese: ယူးကွန်းနယ်
- Catalan: Yukon
- Cebuano: Yukon (lalawigan)
- Cebuano: Yukon
- Central Kurdish: یووکان
- Chinese: Yukon
- Chinese: 育空
- Chinese: 育空地区
- Chinese: 育空地區
- Cornish: Yukon
- Croatian: Yukon
- Czech: Yukon
- Danish: Yukon
- Dimli (individual language): Yukon
- Dutch: Yukon
- English: CA-YT
- English: Territory of the Yukon
- English: The Klondike
- English: YT
- English: Yukon Territory
- English: the Yukon
- Esperanto: Jukonio
- Esperanto: Jukonteritorio
- Esperanto: Teritorio Jukonio
- Esperanto: YT
- Estonian: Yukon
- Faroese: Yukon
- Finnish: Yukon
- French: CA-YT
- French: Territoire du Yukon
- French: YT
- French: Yukon
- Galician: Yukón
- Georgian: იუკონი
- German: CA-YT
- German: Yukon
- German: Yukon-Territorium
- German: Yukon Territory
- German: Yukonterritorium
- Greek: Γιούκον
- Gujarati: યુકોન
- Hebrew: יוקון
- Hindi: युकॉन प्रांत
- Hungarian: Yukon
- Icelandic: Júkon
- Icelandic: Yukon
- Indonesian: Yukon
- Inupiaq: Yukon
- Irish: Yukon
- Italian: Yukon
- Japanese: ユーコン準州
- Kalaallisut: Yukon
- Kannada: ಯುಕಾನ್
- Kazakh: Юкон
- Korean: 유콘 준주
- Kurdish: Yukon
- Kurdish: Îwkon
- Ladino: Yukon
- Latin: Yukon
- Latvian: Jukona
- Ligurian: Yukon
- Literary Chinese: 育空地區
- Lithuanian: Jukonas
- Luxembourgish: Yukon
- Macedonian: Јукон
- Malay: Yukon
- Malayalam: യൂക്കോൺ
- Manx: Yukon
- Marathi: युकॉन
- Min Dong Chinese: Yukon
- Min Nan Chinese: Yukon
- Mingrelian: იუკონი
- Mongolian: Юкон
- Northern Frisian: Yukon
- Norwegian: Yukon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Yukon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Yukon
- Occitan (post 1500): Yukon
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܝܘܩܘܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Geocon
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Geocon Landscipe
- Ossetian: Юкон
- Pampanga: Yukon
- Panjabi: ਯੂਕੋਨ
- Papiamento: Yukon
- Persian: یوکان
- Piemontese: Yukon
- Polish: Jukon
- Portuguese: Iucão
- Portuguese: Território de Yukon
- Portuguese: Território do Yukon
- Portuguese: YT
- Portuguese: Yukon
- Romanian: Yukon
- Russia Buriat: Юкон
- Russian: Юкон
- Samogitian: Jukons
- Sardinian: Yukon
- Scots: Yukon
- Scottish Gaelic: Roinn an Iukon
- Serbian: Јукон
- Serbo-Croatian: Yukon
- Sinhala: යුන්කොන්
- Slovak: Yukon
- Slovenian: Jukon
- Slovenian: Jukonsko ozemlje
- Slovenian: Yukon
- South Azerbaijani: یوکان
- Spanish: Territorio del Yukón
- Spanish: YT
- Spanish: Yukón
- Swahili: Yukon
- Swedish: Yukon
- Swedish: Yukon Territory
- Swedish: Yukonterritoriet
- Tagalog: Yukon
- Tamil: யூக்கான்
- Tatar: Юкон (территория)
- Tatar: Юкон
- Telugu: యుకాన్
- Thai: ยูคอน
- Turkish: Yukon
- Uighur: Yukon Rayoni
- Ukrainian: Юкон
- Urdu: يوكون
- Uzbek: Yukon
- Venetian: Yukon
- Vietnamese: Yukon
- Volapük: Yukon
- Võro: Yukon
- Waray (Philippines): Yukon
- Welsh: Yukon
- Western Frisian: Yukon
- Western Panjabi: يوكون
- Western Panjabi: یکون
- Wu Chinese: 育空地区
- Yakut: Юкон
- Yiddish: יוקאן
- Yue Chinese: 育空地區
- Y.T.
- Yuukan
- यूकॉन
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Yukon. Photo: Gerry, CC BY-SA 2.0.