Northwest Territories

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
NT
Pronunciation
/ˌnɔrθˈwɛst ˈtɛrəˌtɔriz/
Category
Regional
Related Field
Canadian

Examples in Context

  1. The region became part of the Northwest Territories(NT) in1870.
  2. Canada's Northen region, Yukon and the Northwest territories.
  3. The Canadian Shield is a semicircular band of rocky highlands and plateaus around Hudson Bay form the northern shores of Quebec to the Arctic shores of the Northwest Territories(NT).
  4. A region of northeast Northwest Territories(NT), Canada, including Baffin Island, the Queen Elizabeth and Parry islands, and Melville Peninsula.
  5. Additional pockets of high carbon monoxide concentrations southeast of Hudson Bay may have been transported to the area from the Northwest Territories(NT), but they may also be from local fires.

Other meanings of NT