Baffin Region, Nunavut

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Baffin Region is a region of Nunavut. It consists of Baffin Island, the Belcher Islands, Akimiski Island, Mansel Island, Prince Charles Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island, Cornwallis Island, Bathurst Island, Amund Ringes Island, Ellef Ringes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Ellesmere Island, the Melville Peninsula, the eastern part of Melville Island, and the northern parts of Prince of Wales Island, and Somerset Island, plus smaller islands in between. The regional seat is Iqaluit.

Table of contents

1 Communities
2 Attractions
3 Protected Areas
4 Demographics
5 Surrounding Counties

Communities

Cities
Iqaluit
Hamlets
- Arctic Bay
- Cape Dorset
- Clyde River
- Grise Fiord
- Hall Beach
- Igloolik
- Kimmirut
- Pangnirtung
- Pond Inlet
- Qikiqtarjuaq
- Resolute
- Sanikiluaq
Settlements
- Nanisivik
Unorganized Areas
- Baffin, Unorganized

Attractions

Astro Hill Complex (Iqaluit)
Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum (Iqaluit)
Nunavut Legislature Building (Iqaluit)
Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre (Iqaluit)

Protected Areas

Auyuittuq National Park
Katannilil
Kekerten
Mallikjuak
Pitsutinu-Tungavik
Qilalukat
Quammaarviit
Rotary Club Day Park
Sirmilik National Park
Sylvia Grinnel

Demographics

(Statistics Canada, 2001)

Population: 14,372
Population change (1996-2001): 8.7
Dwellings: 4,560
Area (sq. km): 1,023,570.49
Density (per sq. km.): 0.0
National rank in terms of population: 257
Territorial rank in terms of population: 1

Surrounding Counties

Division No. 10, Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador)
Division No. 23, Manitoba
Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories
Keewatin Region, Nunavut
Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut