Flag of Nunavut
Locally Nunavut · ᓄᓇᕗᑦ
What the flag looks like
Divided vertically, gold at the hoist and white at the fly, with a red inuksuk standing across the division and a blue star in the upper fly.
What it means
Gold and white stand for the riches of the land, sea and sky; the inuksuk is a stone marker that guides people across the land, and the star is the North Star, Niqirtsuituq.
How to remember it
Nunavut
stands a red inuksuk, a stone figure like a person with outstretched arms, across a gold and white flag under a blue North Star.
Fun facts
- Nunavut was split from the Northwest Territories on 1 April 1999, the most recent change to Canada's map.
- Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut.
Nunavut at a glance
- Type
- Territory
- Joined Confederation
- 1999
- Capital
- Iqaluit
- Region
- Northern Canada
- Population
- 36,858
- Area
- 2,093,190 km²
- Languages
- Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun, English, French
- Currency
- Canadian dollar ($)
- Flag adopted
- 1999