Yellowknife

Yellowknife
Ceety
Skyline o dountoun Yellowknife
Eik-name(s):  The Knife, YK, Goldenblade, The Blade
Motto(s):  Multum In Parvo (Mony things in a sma place)
Yellowknife
Coordinates: 62°26′32″N 114°23′51″W
Kintra	Canadae
Territory	Northwast Territories
Region	North Slave Region
Constituencies	electoral districts Frame Lake Great Slave Kam Lake Range Lake Weledeh Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife South
Census division	Region 6
Established	1936/1937
Incorporation (ceety)	1 Januar 1970
Govrenment
• Teep	Yellowknife City Council
• Mayor	Gordon Van Tighem
• Ceety Admeenistrator	Max Hall
• MPs	Dennis Bevington
• MLAs	Leet o MLAs Wendy Bisaro Glen Abernethy Dave Ramsay Sandy Lee Robert Hawkins Bob Bromley Bob McLeod
Area
• Ceety	136 km2 (53 sq mi)
• Laund	105.22 km2 (40.63 sq mi)
• Water	30.78 km2 (11.88 sq mi)
• Urban	12.97 km2 (5.01 sq mi)
Elevation	206 m (675 ft)
Population  (2011)	19 234
• Density	177.7/km2 (460/sq mi)
• Urban	19,234
• Urban density	2340.82/km2 (6,062.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
Canadian Postal code	X1A
Area code(s)	867
Telephone Exchynges	444 445 446 669 765 766 767 873 920 999
- Livin cost	117.5
GNBC Code	LBAMG
Website	www.yellowknife.ca
Sources:Community Governance Data List 2006 Canada Census Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Yellowknife profile at the Legislative Assembly Canada Flight Supplement ^A 2005 figure based on Edmonton = 100

Yellowknife (/[unsupported input]ˈjɛloʊnaɪf/) (2011 population: 19,234) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Northwast Territories (NWT), Canadae. It is locatit on the northren shore o Great Slave Lake, approximately 400 km (250 mi) sooth o the Airctic Circle, on the wast side o Yellowknife Bay near the ootlet o the Yellowknife River. Yellowknife an its surroondin watter bodies wur namit efter a local Dene tribe ance kent as the 'Copper Indians' or 'Yellowknife Indians' (nou referred tae locally as the Yellowknives Dene (First Nation) who tradit tuils made frae copper deposits near the Airctic Coast. The current population is ethnically mixed. O the eleiven offeecial leids o the Northwast Territories, five are spoken in significant nummers in Yellowknife: Dene Suline, Dogrib, Sooth an North Slavey, Inglis leid, an French. In the Dogrib leid, the ceety is kent as Somba K'e ("whare the money is").

Yellowknife wis first settled in 1935, efter gowd haed been foond in the aurie; Yellowknife suin became the centre o economic activity in the NWT, an became the caipital o the Northwast Territories in 1967. As gowd production began tae wane, Yellowknife shiftit frae bein a minin toun tae bein a centre o govrenment services in the 1980s. Housomeivver, wi the discovery o diamonds north o Yellowknife in 1991, this shift haes begun tae reverse.